Germany to remove 'blanket halt' on Syrian deportations after deadly knife attack

Germany’s Interior Ministry on December 11 anunced that Syrian immigrants convicted of serious crimes such as terrorism will w be deported as blanket halt on deportation is due to expire by end of 2020. This comes as ministers of at least 16 states in Germany denied ar extension on deportation ban for upcoming year, alleging that deportation ban ‘sent wrong signal’ and individuals that are involved in serious criminal activities must be sent back to ir homeland country. 

According to sources of AP, Germany’s Federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer called for Chancellor Angela Merkel to review policy after a Syrian man was charged for committing a dely knife attack in city of Dresden. Several or ministers supported Seehofer in making amendments to controversial policy citing security risks and national threats due to massive refugee influx from war-torn and terror compromised middle eastern countries. Germany and or European countries, including France, allowed hundreds of thousands of undocumented refugees in countries as y fled in mass exodus escaping conflict in year 2015-16. German security forces, meanwhile, also agreed that it was time to lift blanket protections to be able to deport refugees indulging in criminal behaviour. 

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State secretary at Interior Ministry, Hans-Georg Engelke, told German brocaster DW that ban on deportations (to Syria) will expire at end of this year, 2020, ding that those who commit crimes or pursued terrorism to do serious harm to state and German population should and will have to leave. He stressed that Germany will t be a shelter for terrorists and those that pose internal security threats. dilution of law would allow German courts to send perpetrators on trial and decide which Syrian asylum seekers will need to be deported. Germany has registered more than 1.5 million refugees leing to European migrant crisis as country h done billions of euros spending for ir settlement. 

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