Re deporting up to 200,000 rejected refugees from Germany check out
A few days in, they already "out-foxed" those Germans!
> On Friday October 23, the government
suddenly announced that the new rules would come into effect the very next day, a week ahead of time, a move that was heralded by Angela Merkel's newly-minted refugee crisis coordinator Peter Altmaier as a "good signal."
And yet, even as speculation about a sudden spate of mass deportations circulated in the German media,
it turned out that German bureaucracy cannot be shifted out of its normal pace so easily, and in the weekend's news shows there was distinct absence of pictures of refugee families being herded onto airplanes - possibly even military transporters.
> "We look at them, and if they're sick or if they're injured and
obviously can't go on the flight, then we take them to the doctor and have them examined," he told DW. "But we have one principle that stands above all:
No deportation at any price. No deportation is worth threatening the health or dignity of the individual."
And the scenes can turn ugly at the airport, as Berlin lawyer Oda Jentsch knows. "There are a lot of cases where the
deportation simply can't be carried out by force," said Jentsch, who represents many asylum seekers.
> there are some
193,000 people in Germany whose applications have been turned down - but some
140,000 of them have "tolerated" statusdw.com/en/germanys-fast-tracked-deportations-hit-trouble/a-18809153