As 'Russkaya Germaniya' writes, such data were provided last week by Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière while speaking before members of the Bundestag. Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of people who entered Germany since the start of the migration crisis, according to officials from de Maizière's ministry, cannot expect their applications to be granted.
Why then do these people continue to stay in the territory of the Federal Republic and receive social benefits from the German state? The blame lies with serious legal problems that arise when attempting to deport rejected refugees. At least, that is the opinion of the experts who prepared a corresponding report for the heads of the state and federal interior ministries.
As noted in the report, excerpts of which reached journalists, illegal immigrants cannot be extradited in most cases due to the lack of any identification document. 'In very many cases, the destruction of personal documents is used as a deliberate strategy against deportation,' the document states. On this basis, more than 33,000 refugees have been granted temporary residence permits. For government agencies in such cases, questions about the origin and citizenship of the refugee, his age, and even his real name remain unresolved. New documents cannot be issued to such illegal immigrants due to their 'blatant refusal to provide complete and reliable information about their identity and country of origin,' experts note. That is why the report poses the question: 'Is the rule-of-law state absolutely incapacitated in this case?'.
Particularly alarming is the fact that such concealment of personal data rarely has any legal consequences for illegal immigrants. According to current judicial practice, such investigations into migrants hiding their identity are usually discontinued. The authors of the report recommend that heads of state interior departments examine the possibility of introducing a new article in the Criminal Code for 'concealment of information about one's own identity.' At the same time, a proposal is made that such cases should be handled by specially trained prosecutors and judges who could impose 'sensitive punishments'.
According to the Ministry of the Interior, about 80 percent of asylum seekers currently arrive in Germany either with forged documents or without any identification at all. This primarily concerns migrants from countries where there are no hostilities and people are not subjected to political or other persecution. Even when the country of origin of illegal immigrants is established, many states, such as Morocco, refuse to accept their citizens deported from Germany. In addition, temporary detention pending the execution of a deportation order, which was previously widely used in Germany, has now been abolished by rulings of the European Court of Human Rights and the Federal Court of Justice of Germany.
German charitable organizations that help refugees confirm that illegal immigrants in Germany very often try to hide their identity and citizenship. However, as human rights activists believe, this step is 'an integral part of flight,' since it is practically impossible for refugees to enter Germany legally.