Rejected asylum seekers: why deportation is not that easy

It sounds like a matter of course in a constitutional state: asylum seekers whose application has been rejected have to go back to their home country. In fact, that often doesn’t happen. And the reasons. Especially one.

It is one of the promises of German politics that are broken with great consistency: the promise to deport. Angela Merkel gave it up and so did her successor, Chancellor Olaf Scholz: “Those who cannot claim protection must return home.” Today, the Bundestag is debating a motion by the CDU-CSU parliamentary group, in which they call on the federal government to finally solve the problem on which the Union Ministers of the Interior, Thomas de Maizière and Horst Seehofer, failed miserably for eight years.

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