Sunday, November 22, 2020

1,120 Folks Story

 It's a page three type story, which makes you sit and ponder over things.

Around a year ago in Germany....the Minister of the Interior (Seehofer) wrote up a new regulation over deportees.  

Once you were identified from the asylum application list as a 'failure'....you were directed and in some cases....forced to exit Germany.  Well, Seehofer went one step further....that if you tried to re-enter Germany....you'd go on a special list.  It didn't mean much of anything...other than the police seeing a comment on your file....that you'd been forced to exit, and you were 'unwelcome' in Germany.

It came up this weekend.....the German federal police admit that 1,120 folks are on this list....having re-appeared in Germany after the forced exit.  

So the story is laid out and the question asked is fairly amusing....all this effort by Seehofer to 'get tough', but you basically have a fairly large group of people who are not exactly welcome, and no basic way to handle this.  

The police?  No one says much, but they are probably laughing about the management of the program.  They do the ID game with some guy on the street....look at the file, and see he was directed to exit Germany a year ago, and actually left.  So here is the guy....re-entered Germany.

What it basically says?  No respect for the law or authority.  The border?  It basically exists in some imaginary way.  

The government likely dragged in 2021 (an election year) to invent another forced exit (2nd time) for some folks?  Double-dentation chatter?  More or less.  The general public will have a laugh over the game.  

The other side of this story?  Is the total list really just 1,120 folks....or are there another 10,000 who simply haven't been stopped for an ID check, and they are also asylum folks who left, and quietly re-entered as well?  I wouldn't laugh over the suggestion....the odds are that it might be true. 

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