In the first half of 2019, 11,500 refugees were deported from Germany
As Deutsche Welle notes, this figure is slightly lower than the number for the first half of 2018, when 12,261 people were expelled from Germany, according to the German government's response to a request from the Left Party faction in the Bundestag, published on Monday, August 12.
Most often, citizens of Albania, Serbia, Russia, Georgia, and Nigeria were deported. In addition, 6,905 illegal migrants were stopped at the German border while trying to enter the country. Another 1,525 people were expelled after illegally crossing the border.
Under the Dublin Regulation in force in the European Union, Germany transferred 4,215 asylum seekers to other EU countries. According to the agreement, migrants must apply for asylum in the country where they first crossed the EU border.
The German Federal Police in the first half of 2019 failed to carry out the planned deportation of more than 15,000 refugees. In 15,509 cases, the plan failed at the stage of transferring migrants to the police, and in 2,016 cases after that. During the same period, 6,786 illegal immigrants left Germany voluntarily, receiving the financial assistance provided for in such cases.
As of June 30, there were 246,737 people in Germany who had received an official order requiring them to leave the country. At the same time, 191,117 of these people were granted a deferral of deportation due to its impossibility at the moment.