BERLIN, Nov. 6 (UPI) — Germany has announced plans to speed up the deportations of migrants whose asylum request was rejected after creating specialized centers that will handle the application process
The new centers would handle applications of asylum-seekers deemed to have little chance of staying in Europe, such as migrants from countries considered safe, those who are banned from re-entering Germany and those who refuse to cooperate.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats and junior partners Social Democrats have argued for weeks over the plan. Asylum cases will be heard in a week instead of months and appeals would be concluded in two weeks, with most migrants in these centers to face deportation.
“We took a good and important step forward,” Merkel said when announcing the move.
Germany anticipates to receive at least 800,000 asylum seekers in 2015.
It was revealed Thursday that the European Union has relocated only 116 migrants more than a month after the start of a plan to distribute 160,000 asylum-seekers throughout the continent.
More than 750,000 migrants have arrived in Greece and Italy by sea in 2015. In late September, the EU approved a controversial two-year plan to relocate 160,000 migrants from Greece and Italy to other EU countries through mandatory quotas.
Most migrants seeking asylum are currently in Greece, Italy and Hungary. The proposed quota plan would relocate the majority of asylum-seekers to Germany, France, Spain, Poland and the Netherlands.
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