Germany: Asylum Seekers Make Demands

[Sally]

I think all of us here would be grateful if a country took us in where we would be safe, and we certainly wouldn't be making demands on that country.

Germany: Asylum Seekers Make Demands
by Soeren Kern
October 23, 2015 at 5:00 am

• "Human traffickers and the media in their home countries are making promises that do not correspond to reality." — Hans-Joachim Ulrich, regional refugee coordinator.
  
  
• The migrants said they were angry they were being asked to sleep in a huge warehouse rather than in private apartments. Hamburg officials say there are no more vacant apartments in the city. "The city lied to us. We were shocked when we arrived here," said Syrian refugee Awad Arbaakeat.
  
  
• "One of the men, who spoke broken German, said they [a family of asylum seekers from Syria] were not interested in viewing the property because I am a woman... I was taken aback. You want to help and then are sent away, unwanted in your own country." — Aline Kern, real estate agent.
  
  
• "A constitutional state cannot allow itself to be blackmailed." — Marcel Huber, Bavarian politician.
  
  
• "I man. You woman. I go first." — Muslim male with a full shopping cart at the supermarket.
  
  
• An asylum seeker from Somalia successfully sued the German Agency for Migration and Refugees for taking too long to process his application -- 16 months. The agency said it currently has a backlog of 250,000 unprocessed applications.
  
  
• Seventy percent of migrants from Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria who were offered apprenticeships fail to complete them. According to the director of the Munich Chamber of Trade, many young migrants believe apprenticeships are beneath them.
  

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Germany: Asylum Seekers Make Demands

 

[S.J.]

We all knew that was gonna happen. They could always go back if they don't like their accommodations. Ungrateful bastards.

 

[waltky]

One way to stem the flow of refugees...

Germany steps up deportation of failed asylum-seekers
Dec 21,`15 -- Faced with an unprecedented influx of refugees and growing anxiety among voters, German authorities have stepped up the deportation of failed asylum-seekers.

New figures show that the number of deportations almost doubled this year from 2014. By the end of November, authorities had deported 18,363 people whose asylum request had been rejected, compared to 10,884 in all of last year. "(The increase) can be explained on the one hand simply by the increasing number of people who are getting negative (asylum) decisions," Interior Ministry spokesman Johannes Dimroth said Monday. But the trend is also affected "by the states' increasing willingness to carry out these procedures," he said. The task of handling asylum requests falls to Germany's 16 states and some have been more rigorous in applying the law than others.

Bavaria, the state that most asylum-seekers first set foot in, more than trebled its deportations to 3,643 in the first 11 months of 2015 from 1,007 last year. The conservative government there has been particularly forceful in pushing to limit the number of refugees coming to Germany - estimated at about one million this year - and speed up deportations of those already in the country. Earlier this year, Bavaria opened a special center for people unlikely to get asylum. Situated on a former U.S. Army barracks in Bamberg, 50 kilometers (31 miles) north of Nuremberg, the Arrival and Return Facility II currently houses about 850 people. Almost all are from western Balkan nations, chiefly Albania, followed by Kosovo, Serbia, Bosnia and Macedonia.

Germany considers them to be safe countries where individuals are unlikely to face the kind of persecution that would warrant asylum. Some were sent to the center straight from the border, others have been in Germany for more than a year. Most said economic hardship made them travel to Germany. "In Serbia there's no work," said Elvis Asani, a Roma from Serbia who is being sent back with his wife and children. "So we thought we go to Germany and work a little bit." "I go back, but we have no home," Asani said when asked what he would do in Serbia. "Where shall we go with three kids?"

Since the center was opened in mid-September, the 15 staff processing asylum requests haven't issued a single permanent residency permit, officials said. Meanwhile, 463 people were deported voluntarily and 170 were forcibly deported. Decisions are made within five to ten days. "We don't want to paint a discouraging picture, we want to paint a realistic picture," Stefan Krug, an official with the regional government of Upper Franconia, said Monday. "The mood ahead of Christmas is obviously a bit depressed," he added. "But all in all it's peaceful." Interior Ministry spokesman Dimroth said, unlike in previous years, none of Germany's states have suspended deportations for the winter - and says federal authorities also see "no place for a halt to deportations." Authorities are planning to increase the Bamberg center's capacity to 1,500 by the end of December, and to 4,500 by the end of March.

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Arctic ski resort plays host to refugees
Mon, Dec 21, 2015 - EXTREME KINDNESS: As Sweden looks to accommodate 160,000 refugees this year, some will have to freeze through the winter in Riksgransen — 200km north of the Arctic Circle

Far above Sweden’s Arctic Circle, two dozen refugees stepped off a night train onto a desolate, snow-covered platform, their Middle Eastern odyssey abruptly ending at a hotel touted as the world’s most northerly ski resort. It was Sweden’s latest attempt to house a record influx of asylum seekers. No one was there to greet them. Only a few, swaying lights flickered on the otherwise empty platform as women fruitlessly wrapped hijabs around their faces to protect themselves from the mountain blizzard. “Where are we? Is this the final destination?” said Alakozai Naimatullah, an Afghan who worked as a US military translator. He wore tennis shoes, buried in the snow.

Refugees walk to their camp at a hotel touted as the world’s most northerly ski resort in Riksgransen, Sweden​

His words went unanswered in the disorder of arrival. Their bare hands frozen, husbands, wives and children bent over to drag plastic bags filled with worldly possessions over a steep, snowy path to hotel lights 100m below. They joined around 600 refugees, mainly from Syria and Afghanistan, holed up for two months in Riksgransen. It is about 200km north of the Arctic Circle and a two-hour bus ride to the nearest town — if the road is not closed by snow. It is an example of the extremes Sweden is going to in order to house about 160,000 refugees this year in a country of 10 million people. Shelters range from heated tents to adventure theme parks, straining resources.

The sun never rises in Riksgransen at this time of year and temperatures can plummet to minus-30oCelsius. However, the hotel offers food, shelter and security after a dangerous month-long trip from the Middle East by boat, train and bus. The jovial hotel manager, Sven Kuldkepp, has helped arrange temporary classes and free sledges for children. There is a gym and boxing classes for adults. A room once used for meditation has been turned into a mosque. Yoga mats now face Mecca. However, the hotel mostly has the feel of an airport lounge with a delayed flight — with a two-month wait. Riksgransen will be home until the ski season starts in February, but many face more than a year’s wait until they get news of asylum requests.

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[waltky]

That's enough to populate a whole city...

Germany expects 500,000 refugees this year: newspaper
Mon Feb 15, 2016 - The German government expects 500,000 refugees to come to Germany this year, German newspaper Rheinische Post cited sources from the Federal Labor Office as saying.

German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere told Frank-Juergen Weise, head of both the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) and the Federal Labor Office, to prepare for an influx of that size this year, the newspaper said in an advance copy of a report due to be published on Tuesday.

Migrants queue on a street to enter the compound outside the Berlin Office of Health and Social Affairs (LAGESO) for their registration process in Berlin, Germany​

The German Interior Ministry was not immediately available to comment on the report. Last year some 1.1 million migrants arrived in Germany. German media tend to use the word refugee to refer to both refugees and migrants.

Germany expects 500,000 refugees this year: newspaper

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Germany struggling as Syria and refugee crises rage
Tue, Feb 16, 2016 - Germany, Europe’s reluctant hegemon, is trying its best to lead in the face of multiple overlapping crises, but no one is following.

That was a central message from this year’s Munich Security Conference, an annual event where leaders and diplomats from Europe, the Middle East and the US gather to debate the world’s problems. It ended on Sunday on a far gloomier note than it started — with doubts being cast over a fledgling truce plan for Syria, with Russia defiant and confrontational, and Berlin struggling to win over European allies in the refugee crisis. “You have leaders who are disconcerted and overwhelmed,” said Constanze Stelzenmueller, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, describing this year’s gathering as “oddly limp.” “The lack of confidence is as pervasive as a damp fog. Germany is doing its best on the diplomatic front, but there is a real struggle to find pragmatic solutions and form effective coalitions,” Stelzenmueller said.

On the eve of the conference, a meeting of major powers hosted by German Minister of Foreign Affairs Frank-Walter Steinmeier agreed to a “cessation of hostilities” in Syria, providing a glimmer of hope in a five-year war that has killed at least 250,000 people. However, within hours, signatories to the deal itself were calling it into question. Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Lavrov said the chances of it failing were greater than success and made clear Moscow would not stop its airstrikes in support of Syrian forces descending on the northern city of Aleppo. His remarks and those of Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev appeared to dash hopes of a more constructive approach from Moscow.

Medvedev warned of a new Cold War and evoked Russian President Vladimir Putin’s confrontational Munich speech of 2007, in which he accused the US of a destructive drive to become the world’s “one single master.” “They were both here to deliver a telegram from Putin,” said Francois Heisbourg, special adviser to the Paris-based Foundation for Strategic Research. “The message was: We don’t take you seriously, and we’re going to make life difficult for you 24/7.” US Secretary of State John Kerry and his German counterpart Steinmeier on Saturday did their best to sound optimistic.

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[rhodescholar]

That's enough to populate a whole city...

There is a mass urising brewing in Europe, and it is not going to be pretty for the islamic filth, who are going to be mass deported.

 

[waltky]

Asylum seekers 'vanish' in Germany...

Germany reports disappearance of 130,000 asylum seekers
Fri, 26 Feb 2016 - Germany does not know the whereabouts of 130,000 asylum seekers who registered last year, officials say.

Germany does not know the whereabouts of 130,000 asylum seekers who were registered last year, officials say. The migrants did not appear at reception centres to which they had been directed, the government said in a written reply to a question. This may be because they have moved to a different country, gone underground or registered several times. Those missing represent about 13% of about 1.1 million asylum seekers registered in Germany in 2015.

A spokesman for the interior ministry said a series of measures approved by parliament on Thursday would help address the missing migrants problem, AFP news agency reports. These include plans for them to receive an identity document on arriving in Germany so that the authorities can store personal data under a common database and avoid making repeated registrations. The new rules also include measures to restrict family reunions for some migrants in addition to slackening the criteria used by the authorities to expel convicted foreigners.

This was a key measure put forward after New Year celebrations were marred when scores of women complained about being sexually assaulted and robbed by a crowd of predominantly migrant men. Germany's main business associations are due to voice their concern over a potential collapse of the EU's border-free Schengen system at a meeting with Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday in Munich. They are expected to repeat their argument that migration can be a useful tool to replenish Germany's shrinking workforce.

On Thursday, the head of Germany's federal office for migration, Frank-Juergen Weise, said there were up to 400,000 people in the country whose identities were unknown to the authorities. A special flight from Germany carrying 125 deported Afghans arrived in Kabul on Wednesday. Afghans have become Germany's second largest group of asylum seekers, after Syrians, with 154,000 arriving in 2015. Those arriving in Kabul all left voluntarily, German officials said.

Germany reports disappearance of 130,000 asylum seekers - BBC News