NEWS NOW GERMANY
Interestingly, as I prepared to publish this article, a case from Wuppertal (held now in Munster) is being undertaken in court to decide whether a young Jordanian youth, who was born in Germany and who only knows his homeland "if at all "through visits in school vacation, should be deported after being involved as a minor in various criminal activities. The youth's name is Samer S. and his lawyer uses the language of Berndt Engelmann, i.e. calling the young man an "Inlander (as opposed to the German word Auslaender, which means foreigner in German. Bernt Engelmann in DU DEUTSCH? had used the term "Inlander to talk about the 5 million uncounted long-time residents and longtime foreigners in Germany in the 1900 census.
The current German law used to expel foreign trouble-making youth was created to mirror the American legislation, which expels primarily Central American youth to their parent's homelands when they are involved in gang-like criminal activities in the USA. In America, then, any minor or who (1) was not born in a foreign land but (2) who does not yet have USA nationality, and (3) who likely only knows his homeland "if at all "through visits there in school vacation may be expelled through American law to another country if that homeland-of-the-youth's-parents agrees to accept the adolescent criminal.
Meanwhile in another German city tomorrow, on December 2, in Bremen a conference of German ministers from each state (or Bundesland) will be the point of protest actions and counter-conferences led by numerous stateless youth and by children of long-term refugees in Germany who are facing the possibility that they, too, soon be expelled from their current home country.
One reason for this time-and-date to organize such protests is that one-year ago some 38,000 youths, all without German papers and work permits, were given one-year only to get a regular job or face deportment immediately from Germany. As of now only 7,000 of these have been able to come up with permanent work during the economic crises. Moreover, the lack of proper German IDs makes it very difficult for anyone in Germany to find a good job.
Most Germans and German officials fail to see that there is any direct connection between the fact that a youth becomes a criminal and the fact that his life chances have been so restricted by German laws identifying him or her as a non-German resident or "Auslaender (foreigner) even though they were born and raised here.
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