The number of foreigners leaving Germany increases further. According to the SPIEGEL, according to a current picture of the situation of the Joint Center for the Support of Return (ZUR), the number of people who can be rescinded within a year grew significantly. As of June 30, 2019, the number was 246,737, compared to 234,603 a year earlier. That corresponds to an increase of 5.2 percent.
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The largest increase in non-resident foreigners was recorded by people living in Iraq (plus 43 percent), Nigeria (plus 43 percent) and Iran (plus 37 percent). According to the situation, the largest groups of foreigners leaving the country come from Afghanistan (20,921), Iraq (18,457) and Serbia (12,659).
At the same time, fewer migrants without residence rights were deported. In the first half of 2019, for example, this number dropped from 12,266 to 11,496, down by 6.3 percent year-on-year.
The number of transfers under the so-called Dublin procedure to other EU Member States actually fell by 15.4 percent. Likewise, the number of state-subsidized voluntary returnees has declined steadily in recent years.
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One of the main reasons for the failure of deportations, which continues to gain in importance, is the lack of travel documents of those affected from their home countries, according to the ZUR analysis. The result is that more and more migrants receive a so-called toleration: a temporary suspension of deportation, which is not a right to stay and formally committed to leave. According to the paper, the number of tolerations for missing travel documents has more than doubled since 2016.
The "situation picture return" for the federation is created by the quarterly. The management of the ZUR lies with the Federal Ministry of the Interior. Federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer hopes that the repatriation of the newly-ordained "orderly return law", which should enable faster deportations in the future, is likely to reverse the trend. Experts doubt the effectiveness of the law for a significant increase in returns.
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