GETTY German politician Thilo Sarrazin has said migrants should be deported by the army

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Outspoken former Berlin finance senator Thilo Sarrazin demanded failed asylum seekers be thrown out of Germany "if necessary under military protection”. Mr Sarrazin, 71, demanded fundamental changes in the law to get rid of unwanted immigrants.

GETTY Mr Sarrazin called for a fundamental change in asylum laws

He urged the status of migrants should be radically changed and branded the current system “a gateway to uncontrolled immigration”. He also said benefits and eligibility to file lawsuits in a bid to stay should only be applicable once migrants have received legal status.

GETTY German soldiers would be used to round up and deport migrants under Sarrazin's plan

Mr Sarrazin added: “Before that, he must be legally considered as not having entered.” Under the SPD politician’s plan rejected applicants would have "no legal status and therefore no opportunity for action before the German administrative courts”.

Should a country of origin deny the intake of the persons concerned [they] will nevertheless still be brought there categorically, if necessary under military protection Thilo Sarrazin

He added: "All illegal immigrants as well as all refugees and asylum seekers, whose stay request was rejected, get deported immediately, categorically and without exception." He suggested immigrants should be deported to the country of origin or the country of last residence, before they entered the EU.

GETTY The current system was branded 'a gateway to uncontrolled immigration'