Despite the European Union being led by Ursula von der Leyen for years, she is calling out the abysmal deportation rate seen in the EU.
“It cannot be that only 20 percent of those whose asylum applications are rejected actually leave Europe,” said the German politician, who serves as European Commission president.
“We cannot explain this to our citizens,” she added.
The EU commission head made the comments in the context of falling illegal immigration.
“Since the beginning of the year, illegal border crossings have decreased by 30 percent,” von der Leyen said at a European People’s Party (EPP) congress in Valencia, Spain.
She said this showed that cooperation with southern countries is beginning to bear fruit, including deals with countries like Tunisia. Currently, other agreements are in the works with nations like Morocco.
Often, the problem facing EU nations is that third countries refuse to accept migrants with deportation orders. Many of these countries have no interest in receiving these migrants, and in some cases, they are used as a bargaining chip to obtain better deals with the EU.
In other instances, there are European nations with self-imposed restrictions in place, such as Germany’s refusal to deport Afghan migrants due to what the left argues is the humanitarian situation in Afghanistan. The policy has cost a number of German lives, including young children, who were stabbed or murdered by Afghans with deportation orders.
In other cases, authorities cannot even determine where migrants are from, as many arrive without identity papers and refuse to divulge which land they arrived from.
The illegal migration situation, which has resulted in a massive increase in crime and terror, put pressure on the left-liberal parties that dominate Europe, and fueled the growth of the right. While there is an emphasis on reducing illegal migration, the European Union wants to ramp up legal mass immigration from countries such as India. As has been shown in other countries where this has occurred, such as Canada, Australia, and the United States, this has had a dramatically negative effect on housing prices, social cohesion, and the education system.
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