When you come into Germany as a refugee, immigrant or asylum seeker.....somewhere along the next week or two....they hand you a 15-page form package, and you apply. Once you comply with this.....it may take six months....maybe even twelve months.....but the application will come back, and you might possibly fail the application (yeah, big shocker). So you quickly jump into an appeal, and this can take a minimum of six months....possibly on up to eighteen months. And here, you might still fail (better than 50-percent chance).
I noticed in the news (Focus, the news magazine), they talked about a failed deportation event today....down in Ellwangen. It's about a 45 minute drive east of Stuttgart.
The cops will be handed the failed notice, and go to the center where the guy is located. Well....they arrived at this center on Monday evening to escort a Togolese guy out to the car, where he'd go and await a flight to leave.
Then this interesting event occurred.....150 other Africans at the center jumped all into this mess.
Why they picked 2:30 AM is a curious thing but maybe they felt that it'd create less stress (well....I can't myself reacting well at 2:30 AM either, I will admit).
They apparently had the guy in the cop-car....ready to go, when fifty of the residents jumped into the middle of this and started making threats against the cops.
By the end of this....roughly 150 of the local refugees were in the parking lot and creating a disturbance. So they let the guy go.
As far as the refugees are concerned.....they won.
What'll happen now? Probably a two-week cooling off period....making the locals at the center believe that the police are afraid, and then one afternoon....they will find probably one-hundred cops formed up in front of the building and preparing to take this one guy. Cost in man-hours? Don't even bring that up.
All of this leads Germans to view the action, and the amount of effort to make deportation possible, and asking questions over how the mess got to be this big.
What few of the migrants or asylum-seekers realize...is that there is a process, and if you don't have a skill/craft/job-talent/degree.....the 'points' here for your approval are dismal. Germany really doesn't need more burger-flippers. But a lot of these guys have wasted an entire year of their life making it to this location....maybe even spending $3,000 on smugglers, and believe that once you arrive...no one will send you back. The Germans? They have no real courage to admit the program to the vast audience thinking it's just a wide-open door.
Then with each of these fights to prevent deportation.....people think that you can actually beat the government, and the cops. That's the part that's hard to understand. Maybe it works in the third-world.....but it just won't work in Germany.
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