GETTY German interior minister Thomas Strobl draws up plan to deport 500,000 refugees to Egypt

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Currently the system of booting out migrants whose asylum applications are rejected is painfully slow with thousands fighting their deportations with taxpayer-funded lawsuits and human rights groups assisting them. The interior minister of the wealthy south German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, Thomas Strobl of the governing CDU conservative party, wrote in a newspaper on Sunday he wants to increase dramatically the deportation and expulsion of rejected asylum seekers in Germany. He said: “In the year 2017 there will be probably half a million foreigners in Germany who have no right to be here.

"Here is where we need a national effort! We cannot tolerate 500,000 foreigners without the right to remain in our country. We require urgent new instruments for repatriations and deportations. Otherwise we undermine the public confidence in our rule of law." On Tuesday, at the Conference of German Interior Ministers, Strobl - who is also one of five vice-chairmen of the CDU on the national stage - will introduce a paper entitled ‘Who has no right of residence must go’. A week later he intends to have the initiative adopted as policy at his party's annual congress.

GETTY Strobl wants to increase dramatically the deportation and expulsion of rejected asylum seekers

The Strobl plan foresees tough consequences for identity concealment which is a common ploy by rejected asylum seekers: if they have no papers they cannot be deported.

Who does not fulfil his obligation to leave, may come, in the future, easier into detention Thomas Strobl

He proposes "the immediate withdrawal of state toleration, the imposition of a prohibition on employment and massive cuts of in social services. It's all about bridging days until the deportation," he added. He also called for those asylum seekers who have been known to return to their homeland to visit relatives to lose their right to residency. He said: "Whoever is driving in his home country, where he supposedly is under threat to life and limb, to make holiday or to visit relatives, must immediately lose his asylum status. We cannot tolerate a such asylum shopping." Many refugees claim sickness as a reason for not being shípped out of the country.

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GETTY Many refugees claim sickness as a reason for not being shipped out of the country

But Stroble says: "If they were sick when they came into Germany they can no longer use that as an excuse not to leave Germany." The possibility of detention will be extended. "Who does not fulfil his obligation to leave, may come, in the future, easier into detention. Even if we have an open heart for those who need protection, we will proceed with full vigour against those we believe are pulling the wool over our eyes." He also proposes to set up a German repatriation Centre in Egypt to receive not only shipwrecked refugees from the Mediterranean, but also rejected asylum seekers from Germany.

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