It came up in the news today (via Focus reporting), that the mayor of Frankfurt on the Oder (the other Frankfurt, as we always forget there are two of them).....spoke up on that cities have the right to expel or toss you out of the country.
Quietly hidden away in Article 54 of the German Residence Act.....is this little rule that when you get a sentence of two years or more....as a non-German in some community, that is enough to revoke your residence and it can all be done without any state or national judges involved. The community (not the state or the Berlin-crowd) has the right to remove you.
For reference, this Frankfurt is way over on the east side of the country, near the Polish border. A town of sixty-thousand, it's generally identified as leaning awful far to the left.
This comes up from an episode involving two Syrian guys (both were on asylum situations), who got into some violent assaults at some local nightclub. The authorities indicate two folks were fairly hurt from that episode.
Again, with my commentary from the past....I emphasize that once you get down to immature behavior, alcohol or drug usage....a lot of these migrant acts of stupidity go toward young males and their leisure time activity.
If the federal government had sat there in 2013/2014, and said in some straight forward way.....once you get a visa, you are on probation for five years and can be easily departed if you go and do something stupid....alot of this current bad behavior would have been enough to remove folks early on before they got deeper and into some life or death situations.
The odds that the Berlin-crowd will step in and revise Article 54, and not allow communities to expel folks? Oh, it wouldn't surprise me at all.
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