Sunday, April 27, 2025 (JSN)The leaders of Somalia and Germany have agreed to boost the number of deportations of Somali migrants without legal status. The deal will mostly affect a handful of people convicted of serious crimes.
Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz have announced plans to return a greater number of Somali nationals without the right to remain in Germany.
After a meeting with the Somali president in Berlin, Scholz said undocumented Somalis would be “repatriated quickly and efficiently.”
He added that the deportations would apply mostly to people convicted of serious criminal offences.
Any new arrangement on returns is likely to affect very few people: of around 65,000 Somalis registered as living in Germany, Scholz himself pointed out that only a “small number” do not have the right to stay.
The government has committed to increasing deportations as a key policy measure aimed at deterring undocumented migrants from coming to Germany.
As well as fulfilling that policy promise, Scholz said the agreement to step up deportations to Somalia is “also in the interest of the very large community of Somalis here in Germany who are doing well and are well-integrated.”
In light of recent terrorist attacks allegedly perpetrated by asylum seekers in Germany, the issue of migrant crime has been the subject of heated political debate and populist rhetori
Although, Somali president Hassan Sheikh has no control greater part of Somalia including Mogadishu the capital of Somalia, many experts of Asylum and immigration doubted the real intention of deporting Somalis to Somalia where these deported can easily be recruited or brainwashed by Alshabaab, Somalia.
Unfortunately, the experts both Somalis and foreign think this will lead to more chaos and already volatile situation in Somalia and if Hassan signs this despite having no rehabilitation program or facility to house the Somali deportees it will be an ill informed and misjudged but to only to cash in.
Somali Journal in the Netherlands based in London UK
Source: Info Migrants