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Arriving asylum seekers in Brandenburg in the summer of 2015
Photo: Patrick Pleul/ dpa
The number of foreigners who would have to leave Germany has continued to rise.
According to SPIEGEL information from an internal situation report by the federal and state governments, 297,219 people who were "obliged to leave the country" were most recently in the Federal Republic.
Most of them are tolerated.
The majority of these people come from Iraq, Afghanistan, Nigeria, Russia, Serbia, Iran and Turkey.
Federal Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser (SPD) wants to give some of them the opportunity to stay legally in the country permanently with the »opportunity right of residence«.
For example, rejected asylum seekers who have lived in Germany for more than five years as of January 1, 2022 and have integrated well.
The traffic light government, on the other hand, wants to deport criminals and so-called endangerers more consistently.
The coalition agreement speaks of a “repatriation offensive”.
According to the internal authority report, there were around 3,950 returns in the first quarter of 2022, slightly more than in the same period last year.
More than 6,000 deportations failed, mostly in the run-up to the measure, but also partly because those affected resisted or a flight was cancelled.
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