DAfter an initial significant decline, the number of people deported Coronavirus pandemic According to media reports, it has increased again. On Friday, the newspaper of the Funke Media Group cited the Federal Ministry of the Interior’s response to the request. In the first six months of this year, 5,688 people were deported from Germany, compared with 4,616 in the first half of 2020. From the left-wing parliamentary group.
People especially returned to Georgia (541), Albania (456), Serbia (300) and Pakistan (241). According to the federal government, the authorities deported 140 people to Afghanistan in the first half of this year. Of the nearly 6,000 deported, there were 904 minors and 760 women.
It said that with the onset of the 2020 coronavirus pandemic, the number of deportations has dropped significantly. Between 2015 and 2019, 20,000 to 25,000 people were repatriated from Germany to their countries of origin or other EU countries. With the pandemic, many states stopped air traffic and closed their borders. This also had an impact on deportation from Germany.
Ulla Jelpke, an internal affairs expert for the left-wing parliamentary group, told the Funke newspaper that the federal and state governments will now “regardless of the concerns of those affected” and once again “move more people out of the country”.
