Although the application for asylum has already been accepted and a temporary ban on entry has long been in force, some migrants are still returning to Germany. In total, the authorities have registered about 9,400 such cases in the past five years.
According to the authorities, 9,400 people have re-entered Germany in the past five years, despite existing bans on re-entry. Just under half of them – 4,145 migrants – subsequently re-applied for asylum, as stated in the government’s request for parliamentary asylum from the FDP (Free Democratic Party of Germany).
The figures showed that the case of the head of the Lebanese clan Ibrahim Miri was “not an isolated incident. This was stated by the leader of the FDP parliamentary group, Stefan Tomae. People, banned from entering the country, “should not return to Germany through the so-called revolving doors. That is why it is important “that decisions are made quickly not only in outstanding individual cases.
If someone returns despite being banned from entering Germany and makes another application for asylum, their application must be checked first, Tomae demanded. The federal government must regulate repatriation throughout the country. For the time being, that was a national issue.
“If, in particular, convicted offenders or dangerous persons are returned to Germany despite a ban on entry, they must be taken into custody while their application for asylum is being processed”, – Tomae continued. The FDP politician can have a serious impact: German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer already plans to tighten the law on this issue.
According to Tomae, the general practice of re-entry is not implemented in practice due to a lack of places of detention. “The federal states must therefore finally create enough detention facilities”.
The head of the Miri clan, who had entered Germany without permission, was first deported in July but returned to Germany at the end of October and sought asylum. His application was quickly rejected, and Miri was again deported to Lebanon at the end of November.