Germany planning to DEPORT 12,500 Afghan migrants after declaring their home country SAFE

Angela Merkel has been under increasing pressure to do more to tackle the migrant crisis in Germany

GERMANY is planning to deport more than 12,500 Afghan migrants after declaring their home country was safe.

The plan was unveiled during a Parliamentary session where it was suggested five per cent of the Germany’s 247,000- strong Afghans could be deported.
German authorities said the upcoming deportations would not place migrants in danger as "security can now be guaranteed in large swathes of Afghanistan".
A spokesperson of the Ministry of Interior said: "A worsening of the security situation across the country Afghanistan cannot be confirmed."
Under the current legislation, the German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (Bamf) examines each asylum application individually and looks at the risks each applicant could face in their home country.

According to a Bamf report, only 27 asylum seekers were rejected and deported back to Afghanistan this year, while in 2015 there were just nine.
The plans by authorities would therefore highlight a remarkable change of course if it were to be set in motion.

In June, German officials tweeted that it had processed thousands of asylum applications

However, the move has been condemned by some politicians following a recent upsurge in violence in Afghanistan.
On Wednesday, a suicide bomber in the capital Kabul attacked a government vehicle and killed six people while on Saturday, a suicide bombing at the US military base Bagram killed four US citizens.

Migrants gather at a border with Germany

Migrants gather at the Austria-Hungary border waiting to get through to Germany

Last week, Taliban fighters even attacked the German Consulate in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif, during which at least six people were killed and almost 130 were injured.
Marxist MEP Ulla Jelpke, of the Die Linke Party, called on the federal government not to send back any more people to the "collapsing civil war country" of Afghanistan.

She said such deportations meant "a high risk of death and are absolutely irresponsible."
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been under increasing pressure to tackle the migrant crisis after more than one million refugees flocked into Germany last year.

Germany planning to DEPORT 12,500 Afghan migrants after declaring their home country SAFE

GERMANY is planning to deport more than 12,500 Afghan migrants after declaring their home country was safe.

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