Magdeburg/Würzburg (dpa/sa) – Saxony-Anhalt’s Interior Minister Tamara Zieschang (CDU) has called on the federal government to increase efforts in the case of deportations. “The federal government has announced a repatriation offensive, but there hasn’t been more than the announcement so far. Action must urgently follow words,” Zieschang told the German Press Agency on Friday after the end of the spring conference of interior ministers in Würzburg.
Above all, talks with uncooperative countries of origin would have to be accelerated. For years, Saxony-Anhalt has been urging the federal government to exert more force on states that are uncooperative in taking back rejected asylum seekers and in procuring replacement passports. “There shouldn’t be any more trips by the federal government to West African countries where the procurement of substitute passport papers and the readmission of compatriots aren’t offensively discussed,” said Zieschang.
