Germany Issues Deportation Demands for Afghan and Syrian Refugees and Calls for Halt to Their Admission

The German government has issued demands for the deportation of Afghan and Syrian refugees, with some politicians also calling for a halt to their admission.

Following a knife attack by one person on participants in the 650th anniversary celebration of the German city of “Solingen,” three people were killed and eight others were injured. The suspected attacker surrendered to police yesterday and was arrested. He is a 26-year-old Syrian man who is accused of membership in the terrorist group ISIS. The terrorist organization Islamic State (ISIS) has also claimed responsibility for the attack.

Regarding this attack and protests against the presence of Afghans and Syrians in Germany, “Alexander Throm,” spokesperson for domestic policy of the parliamentary faction of the opposition Christian Democratic Union and Christian Social Union parties in Germany, called for stricter asylum policies and border controls for the entry of these individuals. In addition to Alexander Throm, “Friedrich Merz,” leader of the Christian Democratic Union party, had previously called for a halt to the admission of Syrian and Afghan refugees.

Alexander Throm, while reiterating Friedrich Merz’s request, said: “Currently, a disproportionately large number of refugees are coming to Germany, while other member states of the European Union are responsible for processing their asylum applications. If the European Union’s Dublin system does not work, border control and non-admission of individuals who may have previously filed asylum requests in one of the EU member states is necessary.

Furthermore, there is no longer war in Afghanistan, and in Syria the war is only limited. Therefore, temporary protection called “subsidiary protection” for Afghan and Syrian refugees should be removed.”

“Hendrik Wüst,” Prime Minister of the state of “North Rhine-Westphalia” from the Christian Democratic Union party, also on Sunday night, August 25, in an interview with Germany’s public television network ZDF, called for a new assessment of the situation by the Foreign Ministry regarding the deportation of Syrians to Syria.

Mr. Merz, leader of the German Christian Democratic Union party, also said in an interview with Germany’s public television network ARD: “We must end our naive migration policy.”

Many users of social networks, in response to this attack and the issuance of deportation orders for Afghan and Syrian refugees from Germany, stated: “Many of the people are Christians who have been waiting in refugee-receiving countries for years for the United Nations to determine their fate so they can move to other countries and be able to continue their lives comfortably and away from the stress of deportation to their own country, and some have even been waiting for more than 12 years. Don’t they have the right to be admitted by European Union member states and to close the borders to people who illegally enter these countries so that fewer of these incidents and suicide attacks or ISIS-like attacks occur?”