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Germany to Send 'Tens of Thousands' of Migrants Back to Balkans
2015-10-29
[AnNahar] Germany will return thousands of rejected asylum applicants to the Balkans in coming months, Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said Wednesday, as Berlin toughens its stance against economic migrants amid a record influx.
And of course, they will not turn around and attempt to return.
Why the Balkans? The refugees weren't born there. If you're going to deport them, send them all the way home...
"I expect that in the next weeks, the number of repatriations, voluntary returns and deportations will rise significantly," de Maiziere said.

The Federal Office for Migration and Refugees has been tasked with dealing with "many unresolved asylum applications" before Christmas, said the minister, adding "that means that tens of thousands of rejected asylum seekers from the Balkans would have to leave our country."

"This must be accomplished," he said.

De Maiziere said he would also travel in coming days to Albania to find out how deportees are treated there.

German authorities have so far expelled 11,000 people, while another 27,000 have voluntarily left the country with financial help, said de Maiziere.

Germany is expecting to welcome a million asylum seekers this year.
May it truly be so few.
Many of those who have arrived so far are from war-torn countries like Syria or Iraq, but a sizable number has also come from conflict-free countries in the Balkans.

In a bid to free up resources to deal with those fleeing war and persecution, Berlin this month passed a law adding Albania, Kosovo and Montenegro to a list of "safe origin countries."

The description means that citizens of these countries would not normally be eligible for political asylum.

According to official data, Germany received 577,307 asylum seekers from January to September. Of these, 66,311 were Albanian and another 32,258 were Kosovan.
Posted by:trailing wife

#2  Why the Balkans? The refugees weren't born there. If you're going to deport them, send them all the way home...

Because they don't have the lift capacity? They've always been dependent upon Uncle Sugar for any deployments outside of their home bases.

The only other way would be to lock'em up in boxcars and that's still a sore point with some due to the optics of what happened before when they did that. (Now they just let the 'friends' of these refugees chase 'those' people away. It's not so hard on their conscious.)
Posted by: Procopius2k   2015-10-29 07:55  

#1  "Why the Balkans? The refugees weren't born there."

Only those who were, of course: Kosovo, Albania etc.
Posted by: European Conservative   2015-10-29 00:10  

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