It remains to be seen how much difference the new rules will make, with deportations failing for a variety of reasons.
ADVERTISEMENTThe German parliament on Thursday approved legislation intended to ease deportations of unsuccessful asylum-seekers, as Chancellor Olaf Scholz seeks to defuse migration as a political problem.
The legislation authorises residential searches for documentation that enables officials to establish a person’s identity, and removes authorities’ obligation to give advance notice of deportations in some cases.
It will also increase the maximum length of pre-deportation custody from 10 to 28 days, while specifically facilitating the deportation of people who are members of a criminal organisation.
Germany’s shelters for migrants and refugees have been filling up in recent months with significant numbers of asylum-seekers entering the country.
These people are added to the more than 1 million Ukrainians arriving since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022.
