A unified center for the deportation of migrants who have been denied asylum in Germany has opened in the German capital
As "Russkaya Germaniya" writes, the central point of the plan was the creation of a special center that would coordinate all processes related to the expulsion of "rejected" persons from the country. The fact is that issues of extradition of refugees from Germany are under the jurisdiction of individual states, not the Federal Government. That is why various inconsistencies, misunderstandings, and outright contradictions often arose here, which ultimately hindered the implementation of plans for the deportation of illegal migrants.
Now such a situation should be put to an end. Last Monday, March 13, a center for the deportation of migrants who have not received refugee status in the country (Zentrum zur Unterstützung der Rückkehr, ZUR, literally: "Center for Return Support") opened in the German capital. A whole floor in the building of the Berlin branch of the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) was allocated for the needs of this institution. The main task of the new agency will be "coordination of actions of federal authorities and states on the voluntary return of migrants to their homeland or their forced deportation." At the same time, extradition issues will still remain within the competence of the federal states.
The center will begin full operation in mid-May. By then, its staff will be fully staffed, which will include not only employees of BAMF and the Federal Police, but also representatives from each of the 16 federal states. Among the main tasks that ZUR employees will be engaged in are procedures for "the fastest possible identification of migrants and preparation of documents" necessary for their departure to their homeland. In this work, a special role is assigned to establishing closer contacts with foreign consular offices operating in the German capital.
The center will also coordinate work on the "mass expulsion" of illegal migrants by air flights that will depart from Berlin airports. In addition, ZUR employees intend to prioritize cases of deportation of those foreigners who pose a danger to Germany's internal security, have been caught in any extremist activity, or have committed criminal offenses during their stay in the country.
According to the Federal Ministry of the Interior, last year 55,000 asylum seekers who did not receive refugee status in Germany voluntarily left the country, and another 25,000 were deported. Currently, there are 206,000 migrants in Germany who must leave the country, but about 150,000 of them have a temporary deferment from deportation.