More fuel for PEGIDA’s fire?
One of my favorite photos: Invaders at the Brandenburg Gate. http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/world/article/europe-seeks-to-stem-flow-of-balkan-asylum-seekers/
The big question left hanging for me is what is happening to those rejected (around 4,000 just in the first 18,000)—is Germany shipping them ‘home?’
From Deutsche Welle:
In January, 25,042 people
applied for asylum status through Germany’s Federal Office for Migration
and Refugees (BAMF), the Interior Ministry announced Monday in Berlin.
The total includes 21,679 first-time applications and 3,363 follow-ups.
That represents an increase of 73 percent over January 2014 and 23
percent over December 2014.
There has already been a decision on almost 18,000 of the applications made in January. Forty-four percent were accepted as refugees, and the government has prohibited the deportation of 137 more applicants. The applications of just over a quarter were rejected.
In 2014, Germany received 203,000
applications for asylum, 60 percent higher than in 2013 – the
third-highest total in national history and more than any other EU
country last year.
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