PRO ASYL Press Release
9. January 2003
Home Minister presents asylum figures
PRO ASYL: Annual statistics show deficit of asylum procedure
- Bundesinnenminister präsentiert Asylstatistik
PRO ASYL: Jahresstatistik offenbart Defizite des Asylverfahrens - Home Minister presents asylum figures
PRO ASYL: Annual statistics show deficit of asylum procedure
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In view of the serious human rights violations, from which refugees try to flee, it is shameful in the opinion of PRO ASYL, if the Federal Home Minister Mr. Schily is considering the low recognition rates and low refugee figures as success.
Germany always insulates itself more and more effectively from the worldwide misery of refugees. Those, which reach Germany, must see, that their reasons of flight count less and less. The recognition rate of the Federal Office decreased for example in the year 2002 continuously for Iraqi refugees from 65% in the year 2001 up to only scarcely 16% at the end of 2002. Meanwhile the situation hasn’t improved in Iraq, as the war preparations against the „dictator Hussein“ do prove. The low figures of asylum seekers aren’t „pleasant“ – as the Federal Home Minister said – but frightening. The decreasing recognition rates show the protection gaps of the German asylum law. These still will become larger by the immigration law in subsections…
Iraqi refugees are presumed, to be able to leave their country via Turkey to North Iraq. Who can leave his/her country – so the logic of the Immigration Law – don’t get a residence permit, but only a certificate on the pending deportation and thus is driven into the dependency of social assistance.
