Die Welt just published an important article on why Germany can't deport anyone. Currently there are 250,000 people living in Germany who have no right to be here. welt.de/politik/deutsc…
2/ Most of these are rejected asylum seekers or people who have committed serious crimes. They're called "Ausreisepflichtige" because they have been informed they have a "duty" (Pflicht) to leave the country. Only a trivial fraction leave voluntarily, since life in Germany
3/ is invariably a thousand times more appealing than life in whatever country they left. So why can't Germany deport these people? The first problem is that 50% of them arrived with no identity papers, some even erasing their own fingerprints with acid.
4/ These migrants are no dummies -- the weaker their asylum claims, the likelier they are to obscure their identity. German authorities must undertake a long, expensive, wearisome procedure to establish who they are and where they came from. Once that's done, they
5/ ask the country of origin to issue temporary ID papers. Many countries of origin refuse to do so or slow-walk the procedure. Maybe they're not eager to repatriate a rapist, or they are more interested in getting the young man's (70% are men) remittances from black.
6/ market work in Germany than they are in adding another to the massive hordes of unemployed, disaffected young males who make so much trouble in their societies. So Germany usually gives up and just issues documents to the illegal immigrant saying his presence in the country
7/ will be "tolerated" indefinitely (Duldung). Yet the authorities do sometimes succeed in getting a deportation order. According to frustrated police officials and bureaucrats who leaked information to "Die Welt" (incredibly, much of this information is non-public).
8/ German authorities obtained 47,760 deportation orders in 2023. Only 16,430 ended with an actual completed deportation. So, 6% of the total number of people residing illegally in German. What happened to the other 2/3 of attempted deportations?
9/ 56 were canceled for physical resistance by the deportee, 86 after doctors said there were "medical grounds" against deportation, 230 times airplane pilots refused to let deportees on the plane. But by far the most common reason was that the police couldn't find the
10/ person to serve the deportation order. Deportees are actually informed in advance that the police are about to come deport them, and many choose to go underground. Police can arrest deportees and hold them, but only for 10 days. If the
11/ stone-age, fax-driven German bureaucracy can't process the final paperwork in that time, they have to be released, after which they promptly disappear. Something like this frustrated almost 30,000 of the 47,000 planned deportations last year.
12/ Germany sometimes charters flights to avoid the problem of commercial captains refusing passage. This is of course incredibly expensive, and also wasteful, since a source tells Die Welt that there's an average no-show rate of 60% for these flights. The system simply
13/ books 200 seats anticipating that all the deportees will obediently show up, and then 60% disappear underground at the last minute. Somehow the bumbling German bureaucracy has not found a solution to this obvious problem despite decades of experience.
14/ So to sum up, once an illegal immigrant lands in Germany, there's a 90% chance they will be able to stay as long as they wish. German laws and regulations are so pockmarked with loopholes that deportation only occurs when the deportee basically accepts their fate.
15/ The other unintended consequence of this regime is that it's the most honest, law-abiding illegal immigrants who get deported, because they're much easier to find. Some manage to raise families and even start businesses without
16/ clearing up their immigration status. And when their name pops up, it's child's play to locate them. So German immigration law, in many cases, expels immigrants who are much better integrated than the ones who disappear underground.
17/ Whenever you contemplate why more and more Germans are drawn to populist parties, it's helpful to keep in mind that this utterly broken system was designed over decades by every German mainstream party, and none of them has any coherent plan to fix it.
@AschRonald ...although it's never the judges and bureaucrats who have to sacrifice anything themselves, mind you.
@fckisam1676 And trust me, I've spoken with dozens of German welfare bureaucrats and they all assure me that it's nearly impossible to detect fraudulent recipients, I asked a guy in D'Dorf how many on the welfare rolls here were foreigners and he said "80%".
@fckisam1676 Basically you show up with false papers in Georgian or Albanian or some other language, get a "Duldung", and then the welfare bureaucrat has a choice: 1. launch a complex and expensive investigation to verify the papers, or 2. just grant the welfare request? Not only
@fckisam1676 does 1. require massive loads of paperwork, thanks to insane German bureaucracy, it's also likely to be more expensive than 10 years of welfare.
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1/ Public swimming pool in Switzerland near the French border bans all foreigners except holiday-makers and those with work visas. Staff and customers are delighted, many locals are returning to the baths after avoiding them. City council member Lionel Maître,
2/ who obviously came loaded for bear, vigorously defends the ban. Local residents financed the construction of this pool and deserve to use it undisturbed. Young males from nearby French "problem neighborhoods" were making welt.de/politik/auslan…
3/ constant trouble, groping and whistling at girls, assaulting staff, getting into fights, and swimming in their underwear. Maitre makes no apologies for the policy, and makes a crucial point: The reason the French louts are crossing the border is that most of the
1/ Air-conditioning is like smoking bans. For decades, Europeans in the chattering classes looked on with smugnorant amusement as "puritanical" Americans banned smoking in public, one of "life's civilized pleasures". People were still writing these articles in the early 2000s.
2/ This was mainly a product of cultural snobbery and reflexive negative polarization: Childish Americans were just having one of their moral panics again, like with topless bathing or alcohol prohibition or prostitution. But then people came back from vacations to
3/ places which had banned indoor smoking and they...liked it. Now we enter the phase when Europeans Dig Their Heels In. They *always* Dig Their Heels In. People needed to understand there was no alternative to returning from a night out with clothes which would reek of
1/ I once spoke to a German judge about a case she had heard involving a short, squat defendant with very dark skin who claimed to be from Somalia -- thus setting up a defense against deportation if he was convicted. She Googled Somalia a bit and noticed that virtually all
2/ Somalis were tall, thin, with mahogany-colored skin. She did some research on what the main ethnic groups were in the Horn of Africa and found out that there is more genetic diversity between Africans of two distinct ethnic groups than there is between Africans
3/ and Japanese people. She planned to raise the issue in court, since which country this guy actually came from was relevant to his legal status. She was strongly discouraged by her superior: "His ethnic group is completely irrelevant under German law. Germany once
1/ In 2016, while Germany was still celebrating its own righteousness, a Syrian father entered Germany joined by 11 other family members. They settled in Stuttgart and promptly began committing crimes of all descriptions, including violent ones. bild.de/regional/stutt…
2/ So far, 10 of the 12 family members have accumulated long criminal records, the total number of cases is 154. Just yesterday, three brothers from this family (2 of whom had already served prison time) were sentenced to prison for a July 2024 knife-attack
3/ which wounded three people, some severely. The brothers started their stabbing frenzy for a tediously common reason among low-IQ, low-impulse-control criminals: Someone looked at them the wrong way.
1/ This article in Die Welt tells the armchair sociologist (and who isn't one?) so much about Germany. First the authors survey German city-cleaning agencies in many German cities, all of whom report a dramatic increase in street trash dumps. welt.de/politik/deutsc…
2/ Now comes the traditional part of every German news article about problems caused (mainly) by migrants: How to obfuscate the obvious truth that the problem is caused (mainly) by migrants. The 'Welt' is a center-right publication, so it makes a bold move:
3/ The first person it interviews says the problem is mainly caused by migrants! Well, he says it "is more severe in neighborhoods with a high proportion of foreign residents", which is good enough. Stating the truth this bluntly would ordinarily earn you a shitstorm
1/ How "Feminist" Foreign Policy Endangers Women in Germany
Outgoing Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock from the Green Party proudly announced that she would be implementing a "feminist" foreign policy.
2/ You can read speech after speech from her describing what this was supposed to mean, but
it seems to just boil down to spending more money on aid projects for women and expressing disapproval of countries where women are denied basic rights.auswaertiges-amt.de/de/newsroom/ba…
3/ This being the Green Party, though, Baerbock stresses that "85 percent of the projects we finance are gender-sensitive and 8 percent are gender-transformative."
So how does this endanger women in Germany?