The German Interior Ministry said today that it has decided to return Syrian refugees to their home country next year if they “may pose a threat to national security”.
AFP reports that Germany’s current national ban on deportation provides all refugees in the country with a one-year residence permit, as well as the right to work and health insurance, among other rights. But German Interior Ministry official Hans-Georg Engelke pointed out that since the ban will expire at the end of this year, the federal government will no longer be bound by the law as of Jan. 1 next year, and the Interior Ministry will meet and decide that dangerous refugees in the country can be deported.
In 2015, Germany began hosting Middle Eastern refugees under Chancellor Angela Merkel’s open-door policy. According to statistics, there are still about 1 million refugees in the country, many of whom are from Syria.
Calls for the expulsion of refugees have been growing in Germany since a 20-year-old Syrian man with an Islamic background stabbed and wounded two tourists in the city of Dresden earlier this October.
According to Engek, it is estimated that there are currently about 90 Syrian refugees in Germany who are suspected Islamic terrorists. “Criminals or terrorists who try to harm our country and our people should and must have to leave our land.”
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