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The entire city council – including the AfD – is resisting deportation
The team of his employer, the Kadach butcher shop, is also fighting for A. and his family from Weißwasser
© Screenshot / Facebook / Kadach Butcher Shop
In Weißwasser, Saxony, the Ministry of the Interior is planning to deport a 30-year-old. But all factions are fighting against it – even the AfD.
In extremely rare unanimity in the Saxon city of 20,000 inhabitants Weißwasser opposed all city council factions against a planned deportation.
30-year-old Heberth Alvarado A. came to Germany from Venezuela in October 2022. He finds work at a butcher shop in Spremberg, Brandenburg, very close to his home in Weißwasser. His daughter goes to daycare in Weißwasser and his girlfriend is expecting a child in June.
Weißwasser votes unanimously against deportation
Nevertheless, Alvarado is scheduled to be deported as early as April 25th. This is what the responsible Ministry of the Interior decided. Even the hardship commission that was involved spoke out in favor of a right to stay – as did his employer and his entire team via Facebook – but Minister Armin Schuster’s authority is insisting on its plans.
As the portal rtl.de writes with reference to the Saxon authorities, A. should travel back to South America and from there apply again at the butcher shop where he already works. The reason: He didn’t get to Germany the “right” way. A. did not come as an immigrant, but as a refugee, which obviously represents a problem.
As the “Bild” newspaper explains in this context, the ministry also justifies the deportation with A’s lack of knowledge of German. The ministry also does not accept the reference to the shortage of skilled workers, as the t-online portal writes. The Interior Minister explained that A. was not considered a skilled worker because he had not completed any formal training as a butcher.
None of these arguments convinced the Weißwasser city council. Unanimously, including the votes of the AfD, which was represented in the city council with 22 percent in the last election, they voted for As to remain in Saxony. “We want him to stay,” the “Bild” newspaper quoted AfD parliamentary group leader Hermann Holdt as saying.
However, it is questionable whether the vote result has more than just symbolic character, after all, all signals from the Saxon Interior Ministry point towards deportation and this is planned for around two weeks.
Sources: “Bild” newspaper, t online, rtl.de