MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Peter Tauber explained the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees currently considered about 2,000 applications per day.
"If [we assume] on average one in every two [asylum] applications receives negative decision, then the [federal] states would be obliged to deport 1,000 rejected asylum seekers every day," Peter Tauber told the Rheinische Post newspaper in an interview.
According to Tauber, the number of daily arrivals to Germany has dropped from some 10,000 people in November to around 3,000 at the moment but even that number, according to him, is too high.
Tauber said the New Year's Eve attacks in Cologne were a turning point in the country's refugee policy.
On New Year's Eve, hundreds of women in the German city of Cologne were reportedly robbed and sexually assaulted by groups of aggressive men, allegedly of Arab and North African origin. Several similar incidents were reported on the same day in Frankfurt, Dusseldorf and Berlin.
