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Merkel's Party Secretary General Calls for 1,000 Daily Deportations

© AP Photo / Michael SohnSupporters of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) hold umbrellas in front of a giant portrait of German Chancellor Angela Merkel during an election campaign event in front of the party's headquarter in Berlin, Germany, Monday, Sept. 16, 2013.
Supporters of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) hold umbrellas in front of a giant portrait of German Chancellor Angela Merkel during an election campaign event in front of the party's headquarter in Berlin, Germany, Monday, Sept. 16, 2013. - Sputnik International
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The secretary general of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) has proposed that 1,000 migrants whose asylum applications have been declined be deported from the country every day.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Peter Tauber explained the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees currently considered about 2,000 applications per day.

"If [we assume] on average one in every two [asylum] applications receives negative decision, then the [federal] states would be obliged to deport 1,000 rejected asylum seekers every day," Peter Tauber told the Rheinische Post newspaper in an interview.

According to Tauber, the number of daily arrivals to Germany has dropped from some 10,000 people in November to around 3,000 at the moment but even that number, according to him, is too high.

Picture taken on December 31, 2015 shows people gathering in front of the main railway station in Cologne, western Germany - Sputnik International
Germany to Deport More Migrants Amid Cologne Sex Assaults
Earlier in the day, German Justice Minister Heiko Maas said the number of foreigners to be deported from the country was due to increase once the country's authorities tightened its deportation rules in the wake of the recent mass sexual assaults and attacks perpetrated in Cologne on New Year's Eve.

Tauber said the New Year's Eve attacks in Cologne were a turning point in the country's refugee policy.

On New Year's Eve, hundreds of women in the German city of Cologne were reportedly robbed and sexually assaulted by groups of aggressive men, allegedly of Arab and North African origin. Several similar incidents were reported on the same day in Frankfurt, Dusseldorf and Berlin.

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