Migrants are said to be taking holidays in their homelands

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Despite claiming their lives would be at risk if they were forced to return home, a shocking investigation shows many asylum seekers are nonetheless returning to their homeland for a “short time”.

A German Federal Employment Office spokesman said: “There are such cases.”

The shocking revelation, uncovered by leading German newspaper Die Welt am Sonntag, reinforces the growing problem caused by the fact refugees are allowed to leave the country for 21 days a year, but are not obliged to say where they are going.

Migrants are protected and can keep keep schtum due to “data privacy”.