German interior minister wants federal ‘departure centers’ to speed up deportations

Germany is considering setting up special federal centers to help speed up deportation process of rejected asylum-seekers. The initiative, as suggested by Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere, forms part of general security shake-up inspired by Berlin Christmas market attack. De Maiziere’s proposal was released in a guest article in Germany’s Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) on Monday. Read more Germany to speed up repatriation of failed Tunisian asylum seekers - Merkel https://on.rt.com/7yo9 Anis Amri, the prime suspect in the Christmas market attack that killed 12 people, is a Tunisian asylum-seeker who’se application was rejected. He was supposed to be deported from Germany but the process stalled because the man reportedly didn’t have documents that could have confirmed his identity. Islamic State later claimed responsibility for the attack. De Maiziere put forward the idea of creating federal “deportation centres” near airports where people who have been told to leave Germany could live before being deported. German state authorities are currently handling deportations, but De Maiziere wants to give more powers to Berlin and is calling for a “reorganization” of Germany’s security structures. Each state has its own branch of intelligence service along with federal offices. The interior minister is calling for all intelligence agencies to be placed under Berlin’s control. “As far as constitutional protection is concerned, we should discuss bringing the entire task into the federal administration,” de Maiziere, a member of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative Christian Democratic Union party (CDU), wrote, according to FAZ. De Maiziere stressed that in order to limit new immigration influxes, requirements for the so-called “safe” third countries should be eased and allow for possible deals, such as the one between the EU, Turkey and North African countries. Read more Merkel ally demands revision of refugee policy following Berlin terrorist attack https://on.rt.com/7ya9 The interior minister also said the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) should be considerably strengthened. He also wants the geographic boundaries during searches stretching only 30km out of a federal state territory to be removed and calls for search operations to be expanded nationwide. Speaking of the security in the European Union on the whole, de Maiziere said the bloc needs “real mass-influx mechanism” for quicker handling of large numbers of refugees. It’s not yet clear whether the minister’s ideas could gain enough support since German federal states are known to be reluctant to give up power. Meanwhile, a new report released by the EU statistics office, Eurostat, shows that Germany has processed around 420,000 asylum requests between January and September 2016 – more than the other 27 EU countries combined. Around two-thirds of all 988,000 requests were filed in Germany. The exact figures of requests vary, with Eurostat putting the number at 612,000 while Germany’s Federal Interior Ministry claims it is 658,000. Read more https://on.rt.com/7zhm Menteri Dalam Negeri Jerman mahu 'pusat berlepas' persekutuan utk mempercepatkan pengusiran Jerman sedang mempertimbangkan utk menubuhkan pusat2 persekutuan khas utk membantu mempercepatkan proses penghantaran pulang ditolak pencari suaka. Inisiatif ini, seperti yg dicadangkan oleh Menteri Dalam Negeri Thomas de Maiziere, membentuk sebahagian dpd keselamatan umum 'shake-up' diilhamkan oleh Berlin Krismas serangan pasaran. Cadangan De Maiziere tlh dikeluarkan dlm artikel tetamu di Jerman Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) pada Isnin. Anis Amri, suspek utama dlm serangan pasar Krismas yg membunuh 12 orang, adalah seorang Tunisia pencari suaka permohonan 'who'se' ditolak. Beliau sepatutnya dihantar pulang dari Jerman tetapi proses itu terhenti kerana lelaki itu dilaporkan tdk mempunyai dokumen yg boleh mengesahkan identitinya. Negara Islam (IS) kemudian mendakwa bertanggungjawab terhadap serangan itu. De Maiziere mengemukakan idea mewujudkan 'pusat pengusiran' persekutuan berhampiran lapangan terbang di mana orang2 yg telah diberitahu utk meninggalkan Jerman boleh hidup sebelum dihantar pulang. Pihak berkuasa negeri Jerman sedang mengendalikan pengusiran, tetapi De Maiziere mahu memberi lebih byk kuasa kpd Berlin & menggesa 'penyusunan semula' struktur keselamatan Jerman. Setiap negeri mempunyai cawangan sendiri perisikan bersama-sama dgn pejabat2 persekutuan. Bahagian menteri menggesa semua agensi perisikan diletakkan di bawah kawalan di Berlin. De Maiziere menegaskan bahwa dalam usaha utk menghadkan influks imigresen baru, keperluan utk apa yg dikenali sebagai 'selamat' negara2 ketiga harus lega & membolehkan utk tawaran mungkin seperti yg di antara Kesatuan Eropah, Turki & negara2 Afrika Utara. Bahagian Menteri juga berkata Pejabat Polis Jenayah Persekutuan (BKA) hendaklah ketara diperkukuhkan . . .