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German Ruling Party Hopes to Pass Refugee Deportation Law Within Weeks
German Ruling Party Hopes to Pass Refugee Deportation Law Within Weeks
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The ruling Christian Democratic Party (CDU) hopes to pass a bill within weeks that will make it easier to deport refugees who commit crimes in Germany, a CDU... 14.01.2016, Sputnik International
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German Ruling Party Hopes to Pass Refugee Deportation Law Within Weeks
16:07 GMT 14.01.2016 (Updated: 16:09 GMT 14.01.2016) The ruling Christian Democratic Party (CDU) hopes to pass a bill within weeks that will make it easier to deport refugees who commit crimes in Germany, a CDU lawmaker told Sputnik on Thursday.
MOSCOW (Sputnik), Svetlana Alexandrova — The German government came under pressure over its open-door policy toward refugees after a series of sexual assaults on women by asylum seekers hit German cities on New Year’s Eve.
"My political party… is highly determined to pass the new legislation as fast as possible," CDU’s Nina Warken said. "I think the new law-making initiative will be on the agenda of the German government within the next two weeks."
14 January 2016, 15:36 GMT
After the initiative passes this stage, "it will only be a matter of days until the bill will be discussed and voted on in the German
Bundestag," she claimed.
German laws currently allow for migrants to be sent back to their origin countries if they have been convicted of a crime that carries a three or more years jail term – and that only when the situation in their country of origin is deemed safe for them to go back.
German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said on Thursday that the government wanted to ease deportation barriers in cases when asylum seekers are jailed for violent crimes like bodily harm, homicide, rape, and sexual assault.
