The Deportee Story

I sat and watched an N-TV (German commercial news) report this morning.

The topic?  In the first five months of 2018....the German federal cops attempted to deport 23,900 folks.  I say attempted here....because as N-TV tells the story....only 11,100 actually left. 

Yes, roughly every other person who was supposed to deport....never left Germany.

Reasons?  They go in various directions.  In some cases (150 of them)....the pilot of the airline which was supposed to take the guy as a passenger....refused to do it.  In some cases, the deportee put up resistance, and they returned him to a holding point.

The problem here is that this information gets out into the public, then you have a fair sum of Germans (probably over 50-percent) who get all furious because the system appears to them to be 'failing'.  So then they'd turn and suggest that they'd like to hold someone responsible (you know....fire them)....but they can't really wrap their hands around who to fire.  The Chancellor?  Well...no, she's really not handling much of this.  The Interior Minister?  The Justice Minister?  BamF Chief? 

The other side of this is that you have some guy who gets dragged through all the bureaucratic drills, told over and over....he's going to be deported.  Then the cops come and the guy packs up his bags.  Then this last 24 to 72 hours....waiting on the final part of the drill, to find out that the deportation on this moment failed.  An adventure like this would bother most folks. 

 A theme that will get political attention?  There are only two elections this year in Germany (Bavaria and Hessen state elections).  Next year come a few others....with the EU election.  All of this might add up and have some affect within the EU election (a fair number of Germans have relatively little interest in this election).