Germany has failed to deport tens of thousands of illegal migrants in 2022, either because of a lack of insufficient legal basis, or because the migrants did not show up for their planned departure.

Last year, 23,337 planned deportations failed in Germany, with one of the most common reasons being that the people concerned simply did not show up at the airport on the day of departure, according to a government response to a question from the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and Christian Social Union (CSU) party alliance.

In most cases, the legal system lacked the necessary instruments for the repatriation of migrants who stayed in the country unlawfully, In many cases, however, the problem was that the migrants did not show up for the departure.

Most of the deportations have failed because there is no political will on the issue, CDU MP Christoph de Vries has said.

„Last year, another 40 per cent fewer people were deported than before the pandemic,”

the lawmaker said, criticising the government’s inaction to Die Welt. The main problem is not necessarily that more than 1.3 million people arrived in Germany last year, but that those who arrived during previous refugee waves are now unwilling to return home, when they had the opportunity to do so a long time ago, the newspaper points out.

“There would be no problem at all if large groups of refugees [fleeing] from previous wars or persecution, or even more so the rejected asylum-seekers and criminals were to return home. But the legal system is too complicated and it makes the sustainable organisation of immigration more difficult,”

the paper writes. The government coalition is highly divided in the question of migration. The Greens are not interested in the deportation issue, which is also true to a certain section of the Social Democrats (SPD).

As V4NA has already highlighted in an earlier article, Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s government is in fact striving to accelerate asylum application processes for as many people as possible, thereby practically legalising illegal migration. The government also announced that half a million migrants would be admitted every year.

Some say that the government has an ulterior motive, as it is an unstated fact that the party that enables masses of people to settle will have a much greater chance to secure the immigrants’ support at an election.

As a consequence, however, Germany has become more crowded than ever before. The government has failed to find an answer or solution to urgent questions in a closed meeting in Meseberg, at least in the opinion of the right-wing opposition Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.

“After the cabinet meeting in Meseberg, it’s become clear that the government has no solution to the urgent issues: to putting an end to illegal migration and the growing immigration problem driven by welfare benefits, to the deportation of migrants and criminals who must exit the country, to preventing the ban on internal combustion engines, to returning to nuclear energy and ending the harmful and counterproductive sanctions against Russia. Instead, the coalition is arguing about crazy fantasies that will cause incalculable damage to the German economy.”

AfD co-leader Alice Weidel stated.