An estimated 126,000 illegal immigrants set for deportation from Germany have slipped through the fingers of immigration authorities, German Federal Police office (BKA) disclosed.
It is probable that many of these fugitives have acquired new identities and are drawing welfare from the state.
As past Legal Insurrection reports indicate, it is very easy for asylum seekers to get multiple identities in Germany thanks to the bureaucratic chaos resulting from Germany Chancellor Angela Merkel’s open door migrant policy.
The revelations come as mainstream German media is involved in a campaign to undermine the deportation of rejected asylum seekers.
Media commentators in Germany have been praising Elin Ersson, the Swedish activist who boarded a plane at Gothenburg airport to prevent the deportation of an Afghan refugee.
Meanwhile, Germany on Wednesday resumed family reunifications for some refugees, drawing ire from leftist groups who said a cap of 1,000 people a month was too little and a far-right party opposed to immigration altogether.
The government in 2016 suspended the right to bring in immediate family members for asylum seekers granted limited protection in a move to ease the burden on social workers handling a record influx of a million migrants.
The ban did not apply to asylum applicants granted full refugee status as they have a constitutional right to invite their families to join them.
After big losses to an anti-immigrant party in an election last year, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives and their Social Democrat (SPD) junior coalition partners agreed on a compromise to partially lift the ban from Aug. 1, 2018.
