According to a story in Focus magazine, German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt is in direct negotiations with the Taliban Islamic Taliban regime in Afghanistan to promote the deportation of Afghan criminals from Germany.
“We still need third parties to negotiate with Afghanistan,” a Conservative politician with the Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU) party told Fox.
“I envision us reaching a direct agreement with Afghanistan for deportation.”
Since the Taliban came to power in 2021, there has been no deportation from Germany to Afghanistan. Last August, with the help of Qatar, 28 criminals were flew to Kabul.
Dobrindt also highlighted the ongoing challenges to Syria’s deportation. To get the deportation out, Dobrindt's former Nancy Faeser started contacts before leaving the office with a new interim government that has emerged from the Islamic group Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS), which has overthrown the ruler Bashar al-Assad.
“The links to Syria's agreement on the expulsion of Syrian criminals. However, no results have been obtained,” Dubrint said.
Annual refugee cap of 200,000 is “too high”
Dobrindt believes that the number of refugees admitted to Germany must be significantly lower than 200,000. Faeser's predecessor Horst Seehofer once proposed the number.
However, this has far exceeded the last two years, with 600,000 asylum seekers registered – most importantly, the 1.2 million Ukrainians currently in Germany must be included in the total.
“So, nowadays, the theoretical upper limit of 200,000 is no longer feasible – from today’s perspective, it’s too high.”
