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Germany wants to look tough on migration, even becoming the first EU country to greenlight Taliban diplomats in order to support Afghan deportations. But its removals system remains open to abuse by—who else!—lawyers.
Reports on Wednesday, July 23rd, revealed that three Afghan migrants who were scheduled for deportation on July 18th went into hiding before their flight from Leipzig/Halle Airport thanks to a court releasing them from detention in Saxony.
This was made possible by their lawyers, who filed subsequent asylum applications just days before the planned removals.
German weekly Junge Freiheit notes that by the time the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees assessed these claims as unsubstantiated, the three migrants had already disappeared. Two are still considered missing.
Saxony’s Interior Minister Armin Schuster (CDU) said there must be consequences “to put a stop to the obvious misuse of subsequent asylum applications.” Although he added that “we cannot accuse ourselves of any mistakes because we adhere to the legal rules”—that is, nonsensical rules kept in place by such officials.
Schuster will reportedly bring this issue to the attention of the Conference of Interior Ministers.
Officials may plug this gap, but others are no doubt bound to appear.
And even some of those migrants who have already ‘successfully’ been deported to Afghanistan say they plan to return to Germany, which shouldn’t be too difficult.
