Friday, March 15, 2019

Another Deportation Story

This afternoon....Focus (the German news magazine) brought up this incident from this morning.  I've often essayed that the deportation process is a chaotic program in Germany, and requires a lot of personal attention by the immigration folks, and the police.  So this is an example of what occurred today.

Somewhere around 6 AM this morning.....two immigration officials and two German police arrived at a local immigrant center in Bad Honnef-Aegidienberg.  This is a small town, about 20 minutes driving....SE of Bonn.  There might be 10,000 residents in the local town/region.

So the deportee for the day is a Senegalese guy.  As far as you can tell by the authorities story....he'd failed the visa process (unknown reasons), and the appeals came with no change.  So he'd been told probably in the past month, that he'd be taken back to Senegal.

At some point in this meeting....the Senegalese pulls a knife on the immigration guys.  One of the German cops quickly reacted, and shot the Senegalese guy in the arm.  Situation defused.  Ambulance took the guy to a local hospital, and they treated him.....then released him. 

Status of the Senegalese guy?  After treatment, he was taken onto the airport and put on the plane back to Senegal. 

What a lot of migrants and immigrants come to realize after a while, is that the German open-door doesn't really exist.  It's a fantasy that simply continues to be told.  Upon arrival, you have to fill out paperwork.  It'll be evaluated, and there's key things which you need to show or demonstrate....to get the visa.  Having some job background, skilcraft, university degree usually helps.  If you were persecuted, that would help.  If you were from a country under civil war, that would help.  But beyond that, if you can't show any 'points'....your visa will be stamped 'no'.  The Germans actively telling people this in Africa, the Middle East or Asia?  No. 

So for Germans who get hyped up over deportations.....this type of event just demonstrates the potential threats that exist. 

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