Status: 10.08.2023, 22:42 p.m.
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Police officers escort an Afghan into a charter plane. © Michael Kappeler/dpa
Not everyone who comes to Baden-Württemberg in the hope of protection or a better life is allowed to stay. The federal and state governments want to increase the pressure on the people. However, the number of deportations lags far behind the number of arrivals.
Stuttgart - So far this year, more people have been deported from Baden-Württemberg than in the first months of last year. A total of 1100 people had to leave the country by the end of July, up from 993 in the same period last year. More than 500 of them were offenders, according to the country, and last year there were just over 330 by the end of July, a spokesman for the Ministry of Justice said on Wednesday. However, Baden-Württemberg also counted 17,150 new asylum seekers in the first seven months of this year. First, the SWR had reported on some of the figures.
In total, the authorities counted about 1700 deportations last year, about 600 of which involved criminals. Around 1850 people voluntarily left the country last year. At the end of 2022, more than 34,000 people in the southwest had a so-called toleration. This means that they are still obliged to leave the country, but are allowed to stay temporarily because they cannot be deported, for example because they have no identity documents or are ill.
The state Minister of Justice, Marion Gentges (CDU), who is also responsible for the issue of migration, had recently repeatedly called on the federal government and in particular Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD) to deport people obliged to leave the country more consistently. "There are structural problems with the repatriation of foreigners who are obliged to leave the country, which the federal government must finally solve and for which it is also responsible," she told the German Press Agency on Wednesday.
In Baden-Württemberg, there are also several enforceable persons obliged to leave the country for whom there are no bans on deportation. "Their deportation should be pursued at full speed because there is a clear willingness to use violence or because they are convicted sex offenders with a particularly high risk of repetition," warned Gentges.
The Refugee Council, on the other hand, sees a different problem: "Many of them are an integral part of society, they often have a job, get involved and earn money," said a spokeswoman. "But some of them are still torn out of the system after many years in order to have to start anew in a society that is foreign to them. For them, this is the complete lack of prospects, social death." In addition, there are still people who have a right to stay, but who are deported due to lack of knowledge and poor advice from the authorities.
The concept of criminals can also be deceiving and give rise to misconceptions. "It suggests that these are people who are criminals," said the spokeswoman for the Refugee Council. "There are residence law offenses that can only be committed by migrants, such as illegal entry." dpa