migration
Letter to Faeser: deport criminals to Afghanistan
The domestic policy spokesman for the Union faction accuses Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD) of “inactivity”. photo
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Should Afghans who have committed crimes be deported to their homeland despite the security situation on site? Yes, says Union politician Alexander Throm – and also criticizes the Federal Minister of the Interior.
The domestic policy spokesman for the Union faction, Alexander Throm, has called on Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD) to allow criminals and Islamist threats to be deported to Afghanistan again.
In a letter to the minister, which is available to the German Press Agency, it says that Turkey is bringing Afghans back to their homeland by plane, that Kabul Airport is open and that the federal government is responsible for taking in former local staff and people from Afghanistan who are particularly at risk finally found pragmatic solutions.
Against this background, it was not possible to convey to the population in Germany that even “individual deportations in serious and security-threatening cases” should not be possible, wrote the CDU MP from Baden-Württemberg yesterday afternoon to the Federal Minister of the Interior. His party colleague, the Baden-Württemberg migration minister, Marion Gentges, and Faeser have been arguing for a long time about how to deal with such cases.
Deportations currently suspended
Gentges is trying to have a convicted rapist from Illerkirchberg deported to Afghanistan. The federal government refuses and points out that deportations to Afghanistan were suspended in August 2021. The reason for this is the security situation on site.
Throm is now also sharply critical in his letter to Faeser. He writes: “With your inaction, you accept further dangers for the local population and risk the acceptance and helpfulness of our population.” The current Afghan government is “a difficult contact”, he admitted. Nevertheless, there are talks with the Taliban in various areas.
Before the militant Islamist Taliban regained control of the capital Kabul about a year and a half ago, the countries, with the support of the federal police, had regularly deported criminals, Islamist extremists and other rejected asylum seekers – exclusively men – to Afghanistan.
According to the federal government, a total of 26,682 people from Afghanistan who were required to leave the country were living in Germany at the end of June 2022. However, the vast majority of them have a so-called tolerance. Tolerated persons remain obliged to leave the country, but are allowed to stay in Germany temporarily because they cannot be deported. This is usually because they have no identity documents or an illness that cannot be treated in their country of origin.