Entrance to one of the regional offices of the German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees
According to the publication, the company proposed a package of 14 measures that would speed up the expulsion of migrants from Germany. In particular, McKinsey experts stated the need to create special prisons for those who must leave the country. The company also proposes measures for financial incentives for those illegal migrants who decide to leave Germany voluntarily.
McKinsey points to the need for coordination between the federal states and an increase in the number of employees of migration authorities.
By the end of 2017, the number of those who must leave Germany should be at least 485,000 people, McKinsey experts believe. At the same time, it is forecast that actually only 170,000 migrants will leave the country this year and next.
The cost of maintaining one person who is obliged to leave the country is 670 euros per month. Thus, in total in 2017, Germany will spend about 3 billion euros on this, McKinsey points out. Given these costs, it is necessary to invest in reducing the length of stay in Germany of those migrants who, by law, must return to their country of origin, the company's experts believe.
McKinsey assessed the results of migrant expulsions so far as "unsatisfactory." From the decision to return to the country of origin to the actual departure of the migrant, an average of 12 months passes, and in some cases even 4.5 years, and the process of expulsion for committing a crime takes an average of 20 months, the experts note. Deportation of a migrant with the help of the police costs 1,500 euros, while voluntary departure costs the German treasury 700 euros.
McKinsey also proposes tightening rules for those migrants who have the right to short-term limited stay in Germany – namely, providing them only with non-cash social assistance, in particular food and clothing. According to the company's experts, payments should also be reduced to those migrants who refuse to cooperate in establishing their identity and issuing new documents.
Similar measures to solve the migrant problem were previously proposed by the working group AG Rück, writes Welt am Sonntag. The publication notes that the expulsion of migrants will become a main topic for the German government, but the implementation of most of the proposed measures is the responsibility of the federal state authorities. In some of them, there is still no central office for foreigners, which McKinsey proposes to create, the publication notes.
The McKinsey study cost the German authorities 1.8 million euros, which has been the subject of criticism from a number of politicians.
As reported by Deutsche Welle, from January to November, 21,789 people whose refugee status was not confirmed were deported from Germany, the German Interior Ministry reported. This number does not include cases of forced removal of illegal migrants or those refugees who applied for refugee status in other EU countries.
The number of deportations from the country in the first ten months of 2016 already exceeded the same figure for the entire 2015, during which 20,888 people were expelled from Germany. By the end of 2016, this number is expected to increase to 26,500 people.
In September, German Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development Gerd Müller ordered the allocation of the first 25 million euros for the implementation of a refugee repatriation program from Germany. In particular, refugees will be offered to voluntarily return home, having first been given the opportunity to learn a trade in Germany as a locksmith, fitter, electrician, or bricklayer. In total, 100 million euros will be required for the first phase of the program.