Thursday, May 10, 2018

The Deportation Story

For months, if you gaze across headlines in Germany....you get this urgent theme of deportation of failed applicants being a massive problem. 

I sat this morning looking at a 20-line story out of ARD (public TV in Germany, Channel One), and how it laid out some statistical numbers.

Most Germans sit and think that the bulk of deportee folks are either from Africa or the Middle East.  Well....the numbers tell a different story.

Of the 1.68 million who came and asked for asylum since 2013....there are only 24,212 folks on the list to be deported at present.  A fair number have been processed, and already left.  Oddly....right now, the majority are listed under Kosovo, Russia, Bosnia, Serbia and Albania (European-region countries for the most part). 

The urgent need for a number of deportation centers?  If you look at the numbers....you probably need a couple, but it's mostly to process people and prepare a clear exit out of the country, and back to their home-country.  In the case of the countries listed above....most of these will likely take their folks back, if the passport or ID is valid. 

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