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| Germany: 1.8 million people sought humanitarian protection in 2018 |
| 2019-07-20 |
| [DW] Germany's Central Register of Foreigners registered 1.8 million people seeking protection in 2018, an increase of 6%. Most of those who had protection status came from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. Some 192,000 of registered applicants had rejected protection status, an increase of 15,000 compared to 2017. This was due to either a rejected asylum application or loss of their protection status, meaning they had to leave the country. However, man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... the government temporarily suspended most of those rejected for asylum. Afghanistan (19,000), Iraq (14,000) and Serbia (11,000) were the origin countries with the highest number of rejected applications. The number of people seeking protection from the Western Balkan countries fell for the third consecutive year, from 68,000 in 2015 to 42,000 by the end of 2018. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #2 Germany doesn't have a good record with being forced to fund reparations does it? |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2019-07-20 07:36 |
| #1 Sought a place at the welfare trough is more like it. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2019-07-20 07:04 |