(Deutsche Welle) How many people is Germany currently deporting?
According to the Federal Ministry of the Interior’s figures for last year, 23,617 rejected asylum-seekers were deported in 2018. This sounds like a lot. But in the same period, about 31,000 deportations failed for various reasons. In most cases, this was because travel documents were missing. However, it was often also because deportees simply disappeared before the planned departure.
The fact is also that only 12,099 rejected asylum-seekers left the country last year as part of the government-funded “voluntary return” scheme. A further interesting figure is that as of 31 December 2018, 236,000 foreigners with the status “required to leave the country” were in Germany. Not all are rejected asylum-seekers but by far the majority.
