Significant increase in deportations of asylum seekers from the EU in 2023
The Commissioner of Home Affairs of the European Union announced a significant increase in the number of deportations of refugees to the countries of origin in 2023 compared to the previous year. |
According to this German newspaper, EU countries deported more immigrants to their countries in 2023 than the previous year. EU Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson said Monday ahead of a meeting of EU interior ministers in Brussels that the number of deportations had increased by 15 percent. According to the European Union’s European Statistical Office, around 96,800 people were sent back to a country outside the EU in 2022.
In principle, there are signs of better cooperation between member states on returns, Johansson explained. According to him, countries enter their deportation decisions more often in the Schengen information system.
The goal of this system is to implement deportation in all member countries. Accordingly, if an asylum seeker is rejected in Germany, but found in France, he can be sent directly from there to his country of origin. The Schengen information system has been used since March 2023.
Official statistics show that the number of deportations of refugees from Germany has increased sharply in 2023, while the government of this country continues to insist on The acceleration of the process of deportations is emphasized.
The spokesperson of the Federal Ministry of the Interior of Germany recently announced that the country deported significantly more rejected asylum seekers last year than in 2022. This number has increased by 3,485 cases compared to the previous year.
The Chancellor of Germany, Olaf Schultz, also called for the deportation of rejected asylum seekers “on a large scale” in the fall. The reason for this request was the sharp increase in the number of refugees and excessive pressure on the municipalities in accepting and caring for refugees. However, immigration remains an unresolved crisis in the European Union, and the European Union has to solve this crisis. And reducing the victims of asylum seekers, instead of creating legal ways for immigrants to enter, continues to increase the pressure on this oppressed group and puts stricter policies towards them on the agenda.
After years of discussion And the representatives of the European Union countries and the parliament reached an agreement at the end of last year about fundamental reforms in the asylum system and tightening of strictures against refugees.
Based on this agreement, in the future there should be uniform border procedures at the external borders of the Union. Europe exists. In particular, there are plans to get much tougher on people from countries that are considered relatively safe. Accordingly, until a decision is made on the asylum request, these people should be able to be accommodated in detention camps under prison-like conditions. Europe will be reorganized using a “solidarity mechanism”. Countries that do not want to accept refugees must offer other support, for example in the form of cash payments. Based on this, rejected asylum seekers should be easily deported to safe third countries in the future.
On the other hand, European countries continue to intensify their strict policies towards asylum seekers separately.
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