Seehofer told Bild am Sonntag newspaper that the 27,000 rejected asylum seekers could not be deported because they had no travel documents or police could not find them. The government plans to restrict the rights of failed asylum seekers who lied about their identify or who are deemed a security threat, by establishing a new form of “preparatory detention” before deportation, Seehofer said. Those migrants would have to report regularly to police and they could face further restrictions such as having to wear a locator device, the minister said. Nearly every second company in Germany hired a refugee under a vocational job training contract in 2018, up from only every third company in 2016, a survey by the Economy Ministry and the DIHK Chamber of Industry and Commerce showed. After nine years of uninterrupted growth, Germany’s economy is struggling with labor shortages in many business sectors, and firms are reporting record job vacancies of 1.5 million.

Source: bd News24 February 24, 2019 14:03 UTC