“Perversion” of government job?
Pakistani deported by health authorities
06/22/2023, 11:08 am
When a Pakistani visits the health department in Hoyerswerda, the police surprise him and deport him. The refugee council is outraged. The man was well integrated and applied for a residence permit, but received no reply. Trust in Saxony’s authorities will be lost.
The Saxon Refugee Council has criticized the deportation practice of the state government. A Pakistani who has been living in Saxony since 2015 was surprised by the police when he visited the Hoyerswerda health department and was deported to his home country, the refugee council said. He is said to have already submitted an application for an opportunity stay in January. However, the man did not receive any notification or any other feedback.
The Refugee Council believes that the guideline on deportation practice of the state government has been disregarded. Trust in the authorities in Saxony will be lost. The Free State is also continuing to thwart the transformation of the immigration authorities demanded by the federal government into welcoming authorities.
“There is fear and outrage in the local community accommodation where the asylum seeker last lived,” said SPD MP Frank Richter. People are now afraid to go to the health department. The man is said to have neither been a criminal nor opposed integration. In February he even achieved a B1 certificate in the German language. He is also said to have volunteered to take in Ukrainian refugees in Hoyerswerda. Since he had been living in Germany since 2015, he had applied for an opportunity to stay, as it was said.
“If authorities that are supposed to ensure people’s health serve as a cog in the wheelwork of the deportation offensive, this is a scandal and a perversion of their actual tasks,” criticized Dave Schmidtke from the Saxon Refugee Council. In extreme cases, this would mean that from now on fewer people would visit medical staff even though they urgently needed treatment.