The chair of the Interior Ministers' Conference, Andy Grote, has called for lower legal hurdles for deporting criminal refugees ahead of the federal-state meeting.
Andy Grote, Hamburg interior senator and SPD politician, told the RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland that the current threshold of compelling reasons of national security for deportation must be lowered. This applies regardless of country of origin, including criminals from Syria, Afghanistan and Ukraine.
Grote stressed that it cannot be conveyed to the population that people who commit serious crimes can still stay. Acceptance for the protection of refugees suffers when recognized refugees later commit serious crimes such as murder or terrorist attacks.
The spring conference of the federal and state interior ministers begins this Wednesday in Hamburg. Grote advocated not automatically extending protection status for Ukrainian criminals or extremists.
