In August 2022, Kingsley O. from Gelsenkirchen was deported to Nigeria. The separation from his family of four children caused headlines and outrage. Now the Gelsenkirchen city administration went one better: He should pay the costs of 12,933.46 euros for his deportation! If he doesn't do this, he will not be allowed to re-enter Germany to visit his family.
The Friends of Refugee Solidarity protests against this inhumane treatment and demands: Withdrawal of the decision and lifting of the entry ban. He should be able to live and work here with his family!
The expulsion itself was a scandal. Human rights and refugee organizations protested, the media reported. The Friends of Refugee Solidarity and AUF Gelsenkirchen protested. Kingsley O. had work here, he could support himself. In anticipation of the right of residence, he could have been given the opportunity to live in Germany as a sought-after worker and taxpayer. But the city of Gelsenkirchen didn't use its leeway and preferred to push away!
The Gelsenkirchen Administrative Court and the Münster Higher Administrative Court cynically insisted on the “legality” of the deportation and recommended that the family should follow him to Nigeria. But how do you pay for a trip, how do you live in the country whose enormous wealth benefits the energy companies but not the people? In a country where the greed for profit through reckless oil production leaves behind a scorched earth and the primarily rural livelihoods are being dramatically ruined as a result of the environmental catastrophe that has begun worldwide.
The family had settled in in Gelsenkirchen, the children go to kindergarten and school. But the court does not grant them the right to a family life with their father. The children keep asking when their dad is coming back. The mother struggles through everyday life and does what she can. The court argues that if the children can speak German, that would be a chance for them to re-enter Germany later - what cynicism! This fits into the hypocritical government concept of poaching fully trained skilled workers in poor countries, but then deporting the refugees there.
The actions of the city of Gelsenkirchen and this unspeakable “jurisprudence” are Part of a deeply reactionary and inhumane trend in current refugee policy. Every decent person, every democrat who has learned something from history, is called upon to take a stand against it. The EU and the SPD-Green-FDP traffic light government are promoting mass deaths in the Mediterranean, want prisons at the external borders, and are allying themselves with the most reactionary regimes, like in Tunisia, to keep refugees away - they should die abandoned in the desert. At the same time, fear and terror of “illegal migration” is being spread and those who only see a chance of survival in fleeing are being criminalized. Broad international solidarity and willingness to help should be driven out of the population; people should get used to inhumanity or even support it. “Deport on a large scale” is what Chancellor Scholz (SPD) is now saying. People like Mr. Merz (CDU) and Söder (CSU) stand out with their lies and agitation. The fascist AFD is allowed to spread its ethnic and racist worldview with impunity. This must not come through! Resist the beginnings! Defend the right to asylum on an anti-fascist basis!
The refugees are not the problem
It is not the refugees' fault when inflation eats up wages and pensions, when electricity, heating costs and rents can no longer be paid. Unlimited pursuit of profit is a common root of the causes of flight and the problems here. That's why it's important to stick together and fight, regardless of skin color, nationality or religion - as is a good tradition in our mining town. The costs of the failed refugee policy must not be passed on to the municipalities. It would not be a problem in Germany, but would actually make sense, to take in more refugees, to accommodate them in a dignified manner and without forming a ghetto, and to give them work and training. The community of Hebertshausen in Bavaria shows how this can be successfully done for the benefit of everyone (see Monitor report on October 12, 2023 in the ARD media library). The Gelsenkirchen city administration should take this as an example!
All Refugees need the right to work and attend German courses!
Stop the deportations! Right to stay and right to asylum except for fascists!
For a welcoming culture of solidarity!
Fight the causes of flight, not the refugees!
We invite everyone who does not want to put up with the reactionary and inhumane refugee policy, who has questions and needs discussion, who needs help and/or wants to help: get to know us and join the Refugee Solidarity Friends Circle!
We are a non-partisan association, finance our work ourselves and are active on a voluntary basis. The Friends of Refugee Solidarity is a member of the non-partisan
Solidarity and aid organization SI – SOLIDARITY INTERNATIONAL.
> Contact in Gelsenkirchen: Marlies Schumann Tel. 0209-202451 email: marlies.schumann@gmx.de
> Contact is also possible From November every Saturday from 7 p.m. in Treff International, Hauptstrasse 40.
More information about the Friends of Refugee Solidarity:
www.freunde-fluechtlingssolidaritaet.org
info@freunde-fluechtlingssolidaritaet.org
Telephone contact: 017632663630
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