It has become a large section of viral videos and photos on the networks that show immigrants who, already on the boat, before disembarking, destroy and throw their passports into the sea and other documents that may identify them. And this is becoming a serious problem in Germany, which cannot deport those who are denied asylum because they do not know where they come from.
Immigrants continue to enter Germany in their thousands, despite the coalition government’s statements, and an unprecedented number of them lack any documentation, making deporting them an impossible task.
So far in 2024, 57% of asylum seekers (up from 48% in 2023) They did not have identification to prove their identitytheir age or their country of origin, according to data from the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF).
Almost 100,000 immigrants, according to the newspaper Welt, entered Germany illegally between January and May, and more than half of them did not have a passport or national identity card.
The lack of identification offers a great advantage to illegal immigrants because Germany is almost always unable to deport these foreigners. The German authorities simply ignore their country of origin, and the countries where these immigrants come from will almost never accept the return of a citizen if they do not have a passport.
Right now Germany has 250,000 immigrants marked for deportation, but it has only managed to deport 6,300. They are not refugees in any sense of the term accepted by international law, they are not fleeing either war or persecution: in fact, an overwhelming proportion of them spend their holidays in those countries where they were supposedly in danger. But they are not deported.
The NGOs that make a living from this infamous trafficking and, in general, pro-immigration activists allege that it is easy to lose your passport when you are fleeing, but practice easily disproves this pathetic excuse. For example: 57.5% of Turks who enter Germany do so without a passport or document that identifies them. And there is no war in Türkiye, nor any official persecution. Turks are in fact the third largest group of illegal immigrants entering Germany, after Syrians and Afghans.
A BAMF official who spoke to Welt on condition of anonymity said the fact that Turkey is an “OECD and NATO member state” that has “a large number of citizens without identity documents is absurd.” In fact, Türkiye has a strict law according to which “Every Turkish citizen is required to have an identity document”. Turks are also not allowed to access services or send their children to school without identification documents.
Another official dealing with deportations told Welt that most Turks “hardly offer substantial information” to justify the asylum request during hearings. But almost none of them end up deported, because the Turks do not accept the entry of anyone who does not have a passport.
Other countries, such as Ireland, face the same problems; the CEO of Ryan Air, Michael O’Learyclaims that immigrants are throwing their identity documents down the drain on flights to Ireland.