So far, Riaz Khan has been the man for the bowl. The 31-year-old put together a three-digit number of flower bowls every day. “We sell several hundred of these every day,” says the woman who has employed the Pakistani man in her nursery for five years. Sonja Ziegltrum-Teubner is the managing director and now has to reschedule. Since Monday, she says, she has had no one to prepare the bowls for her. Your employee Riaz Khan is sitting in a cell and waiting for his deportation flight.
A man from Pakistan finds an apartment and a job at the Ziegltrum nursery in Parsdorf in an industry in which the companies lack staff. The responsible immigration authority ensures that this man should leave the country against the will of the employer and employee. To prevent this, the nursery is making the case public and has hired a lawyer to prevent the deportation.
According to her descriptions, Sonja Ziegltrum-Teubner has had an eventful start to the week. It started with a WhatsApp message on Monday morning. Riaz Khan apologized to his boss. He came later because he had an appointment with the Ebersberg immigration office because of papers. The next Whatsapp came shortly after this appointment. He was arrested in front of the district office, said Ziegltrum-Teubner. According to his message, he was still allowed to get his things. “At some point he sent a location on the way to Hof on the highway.” From there he reported on Tuesday. He is sitting in the deportation prison and waiting for his flight to be deported. According to the Bavarian Refugee Council, a joint flight from Munich to Pakistan is planned for Thursday.
SPD politician Doris Rauscher calls the procedure “insidious”
The Ebersberg authority commented on the case on Tuesday evening. “It is understandable that deportations of people who are in employment unfortunately represent a serious turning point for employers,” it says. According to the Residence Act, “with this file situation, it makes no difference whether the foreigner is employed in the federal territory or not. In this respect, we advise people who are employed to voluntarily return to their home country in order to obtain a visa for the German embassy there To apply for re-entry for employment (…). ” The case would be different if someone were to complete vocational training.
The authority acts here within the legal framework. As with many Pakistani asylum seekers, Riaz Khan’s application was rejected. He had received requests to leave the country, but did not comply. The nursery knew that his application for asylum had been rejected, but had assumed that he would continue to be tolerated for a limited period. Ziegltrum-Teubner said that it was not foreseeable that he was arrested at the official appointment and was supposed to get on a plane three days later. “I and the staff are horrified.”
CSU man Thomas Huber sees errors in the asylum law
The case is reminiscent of the Nigerian Zika Oni, who was also threatened with deportation at the urging of the same authority. The Nigerian still works for an Ebersberg art smithy to this day. His boss and the Ebersberg state parliament members Doris Rauscher (SPD) and Thomas Huber (CSU) fought for his whereabouts. Ultimately, Bavaria’s Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann (CSU) spoke a word of power for a hardship regulation. Zika Oni was allowed to stay.
In the latest case, too, Rauscher spoke up late on Tuesday afternoon. The SPD deputy declared that the Ebersberg authority “is not making adequate use of the leeway” from their point of view. This is legally covered. To let someone come into office on the pretext of paperwork and then to lead them away, they consider from a human point of view to be an “insidious procedure”. Especially with someone, according to Rauscher, who is integrated and who plays his part.
The truth is that although Khan finished his training two years ago, he failed the final exam. According to his boss, this was due to language reasons. This failure was decisive for his asylum application – as a result, Khan was rejected. For his professional future in the company, on the other hand, practical skills and reliability were decisive, according to Ziegltrum-Teubner. There was no question of accepting him despite the failed examination.
The Grafinger CSU social politician Thomas Huber made a clear statement late on Tuesday. “Such cases are unfortunate,” he says. The example of Khan shows “that the man is needed in society”. If the decisive factor for a deportation is that you fail to pass the final examination of an apprenticeship due to language deficits, then something is going wrong, says Huber. “The asylum law has gaps at the federal level, so you have to readjust it.”
How much would society be helped by the deportation of Khan? Sonja Ziegltrum-Teubner sums things up from her point of view: “It only has disadvantages for everyone involved,” she says. Your analysis: A man trained in a nursery for three years loses his job. And a 70-person company loses an employee if the personnel situation is difficult. She has no replacement, says Ziegltrum-Teubner. She now has to buy the flower bowls that Riaz Khan made from abroad. “Probably off the tape somewhere in Holland.”