Germany's exiles in 2018 were Albanians, Ukrainians, and Serbs

In the past five years, more and more foreigners have been expelled from Germany. In 2018 there were about 7,500 people twice as many as 2014.

Even in the first half of this year, authorities have asked more than 4,500 people to leave Germany. According to “Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung”, the Interior Ministry has communicated this in Bundestag, following a question of the Left Party.

Most of those expelled in 2018 were citizens of Eastern European countries, particularly Albanians, Ukrainians and Serbs.

But if you look at the database of all foreigners ever expelled from Germany, it turns out that Turkey takes first place, with more than 50,000 displaced citizens.

When a person receives a so-called <x0d expulsion”, he is usually asked to leave Germany within a certain term. If she does not do so, he may be expelled from the authorities - forced out of the country.

According to the Interior Ministry, by the end of June 2019 such an deportation order has taken a total of about 300,000 people. Some 30,000 of them were still in Germany, others had voluntarily or under compulsion.

But among the 16 federal countries there are huge differences: in Baden-Wurttemberg, last year there were nearly 1,600 deportations, while in Mecklenburg-Vorpommer, according to the newspaper there were only 12.

Critics from left: “Fatal development”

The spokeswoman for the interior policy of the Mija Parliamentary Group in Bundestag, Ulla Jelpke, sharply criticised the deportation practice. She told “Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung” that “des represent an unfair double punishment that threatens only foreigners”.

People with the center of their lives in Germany are often affected.

The rules were toughed last in 2016, after the New Year's Eve attacks on Kiln. The number of deportations since then has increased. This fatal development must stop,” requested Jelpke.