"Some could get the impression they could get away with anything because they don’t realise how mildly the state reacts to those breaking the law."

In his appeal for a speeding up of deportations, Schuster warned that the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees was overworked and expressed doubts over whether the bureau could check the accuracy of refugees’ countries of origin. As a result, many false or incomplete cases ‐ where the claimant has no identity papers ‐ may be allowing migrants to stay in the country when they don’t deserve to.