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mmsen:
I see it every time I pass through Frankfurt airport.

Is it not better to leave of your own accord that be forced from a place that does not want you?

So you too can understand the situation the family got themselves into. The woman is sadly a widow and with 4 kids it's very difficult for her looking for options in other countries. I really feel for her

What an irony! Nigeria seems to be the hell people often talked about, shame on our leaders your citizens are being disgraced in almost all the country's but they seem not to border and make things right in our country.
Maybe what happened in Niger republic might befall us someday if things continue in this manner😔😔 .

GboyegaD:
It is well. Hopefully, they do well enough in their studies in Nigeria to finish High School and were of good behavior while in Germany. They may be able to secure funding for their undergraduate studies in Germany.

I hope they do well too.

How can they secure funding to go study in the same country that deported them ?

armyofone:
I hope they do well too.

How can they secure funding to go study in the same country that deported them ?

They are minors when they were deported and whatever issue the government has is against their mother.

2mch:
Are the leaders aliens or Nigerians? You think if this woman is given appointment she won’t misbehave? The whole Nigeria needs reorientation and it should be from crèche. We all need to learn to stop sabotaging ourselves and our country.

Aptly said. What you said is the only solution to our national collapse. We have almost zero human values. All the humane virtues that distinguish humanity from savagery are missing in over ninety percent of the Nigerian populace.

We are just devouring one another all in the name of smartness. With what obtains today, Nigeria is on an irredeemable path, sad to say.

Expect more and plenty more of this. Mummy Angela Merkel is no longer in power.

Sultty:
chai, village people no get joy o. One minute chilling in Germany the next minute (...obalende,cms, woole pelu change e )

No village ppl is at work, they dont d right documents to live in Germany, Germany is nt Nigeria where u have every dick and harry!
Thanks

Primusinterpares:
What was their crime

no green card

DropsMic:
The difference is that they are not blacks.
Blacks are known all over the world to be docile. That's why our ancestors were enslaved for over a millennium by the Arabs and for over four centuries by the Europeans.

toh

Calitoscassius:
True but most of them don't see it from this point of views.

oyinbo no care how you see it.

Douglad:
Many of them ran away to the US in the 19th and 20th century for a better future. Where is Donald's Trump grandfather from?

yep
Donald trump is not deporting you
Germany is

Cromagnon:
yep
Donald trump is not deporting you
Germany is

Your comment here makes no sense

You said Germans won't run from their country because of bad policies/politicians and I'm telling you that they actually did in the millions.

Roger3D:
Lots of Africans are being deported from Germany on a monthly basis, I even watched a YouTube video where some deportees broke the window of the bus transporting them to the airport for deportation. The fact is that it's very difficult to live in Germany without being legit. I wish the family all the best of luck

True that.

Douglad:
Your comment here makes no sense

You said Germans won't run from their country because of bad policies/politicians and I'm telling you that they actually did in the millions.

Germans did not run
Nazis did

Cromagnon:
Germans did not run
Nazis did

Between 1820 to 1914, 6 million Germans fled their country to the US for Greener pastures. At one point they were largest migrants in the US

The Nazis as we know today did not exist during that time.

Douglad:
Between 1820 to 1914, 6 million Germans fled their country to the US for Greener pastures. At one point they were largest migrants in the US

The Nazis as we know today did not exist during that time.

but Germans stayed to build it to what it is today
They have earned the right to deport whoever they deem fit
The German Americans are not the ones deporting from Germany
They deport from usa same as Nigerians now American citizens
Till you have their papers they can do with aliens whatever they wish
Which Wan we get
Why can't we fix our own land so ppl will not use us to do shakara

FreeStuffsNG:
Germany: Four Nigerian siblings deported despite being integrated into society

Published on : 2023/07/26

By Benjamin Bathke

After close to a decade of living in Germany, four siblings aged between 11 and 17 were deported to their home country Nigeria in May. Their return forms part of a trend of more and more minors being deported from Germany in recent months.

A tennis racquet, a pair of soccer cleats, a bible, a pencil case -- personal items like these are all that's left of the Ovbiagele family's life in Germany.

Before their belongings were placed into a storage unit in May, police forcibly entered the apartment of Godsand, Victor, Miracolo, Victoria and their mother Bose in southern Germany on the evening of May 15.

"The police officers came into my room at night and woke me up," 11-year-old Godsand is quoted as saying in a recent article published in German news magazine Spiegel.

"I was shaking. They said: 'You will be deported. Pack your things, but only what you can manage.' We weren't allowed to talk to mommy. We were afraid. I heard Victoria cry in her room."

The next morning, the family of five found itself on a chartered flight which took them back to Nigeria from Frankfurt airport. There were 35 other deportees on board, who had been living in Austria, Luxembourg, Sweden and Germany.

Also among the passengers in the coordinated group deportation flight were a number of alleged criminals, who were seen to be chained on their hands and feet.

Reluctant new beginnings in Nigeria

Different people have tried to provide support to the Ovbiagele family since their sudden deportation; one of them is Rex Osa, a native of Nigeria who has been living in Germany for 18 years.

The refugee aid worker was waiting for the four siblings and their mother in Lagos when their plane touched down there, who described their situation as "catastrophic."

The family have since moved into a small room in Benin City, Bose Ovbiagele's hometown, with the help of Osa. However, this is only a temporary solution.

According to the Spiegel, the city of 1.5 million people is notorious for being a center of human trafficking and forced prostitution and is considered to be one of the most dangerous places in Nigeria.

The children's mother agrees with that assessment: she says she had left for Europe seeing no future for her children in Nigeria. She has been raising them on her own since her first husband died and since she separated from the second one.

Despite these many challenges in life, the siblings are now trying to start again in an unfamiliar place 4,600 kilometers away.

"I don't know if I can find friends here," 14-year-old Miracolo explains. "I don't feel safe here. There are people stealing and kidnapping people; they have guns, too."

Uncertainty for the future
For almost nine years, the family called Kempten their home -- a city located in the southern state of Bavaria, about 100 kilometers away from Munich.

The siblings attended elementary school and middle school in the town of 70,000 people, they completed internships, attended church, played in the local soccer club, and learned how to ride a bike.

"Before Germany, I cannot remember anything. We were still young. I don't know any other country," 17-year-old Victor told the Spiegel.

"I was about to get my diploma," Victor's twin sister Victoria said. "I was already in tenth grade and had completed my oral examinations. I lived in Germany for almost nine years. Was this all in vain?"

The family is still trying to fight for their return with help of Osa and a lawyer, but a final decision could take months. Until then, they have to live in fear of facing assaults, contagious diseases and, above all, uncertainty.

Little hope for a reversal of fortunes
Back in Kempten, the siblings' friends are also fighting for their return. In June, some 60 people protested in the city on their behalf with banners, saying 'Bring the Ovbiagele family back!'

However, the overall protection rate for Nigerians in Germany is low: the Ovbiagele's asylum applications were rejected all the way back in 2016 already.

As a result, for years, the family-of-five were among the around 300,000 people in Germany whose status is referred to as 'ausreisepflichtig' -- or legally obliged to leave the country.

"Receiving negative letters from the authorities breaks down your psyche," Victoria told the Spiegel.

"Deportation was always a threat we fought over a lot. It was too much for my mother."

Deportations on the rise

According to the Spiegel, the Bavarian Refugee Council had criticized the state's increasingly volatile deportation policy back in February already, highlighting that forced returns from Bavaria now appear to target families with children.

"The Interior Ministry and the foreigners' offices have become unscrupulous. The cases, in which families are getting deported into hopeless situations, are on the rise," the council stated at the time.

Almost 13,000 people were deported from Germany last year, according to Spiegel. Among them were 2,196 minors, including fully integrated school children, many of whom have little or no connection to their parents' home countries.

In many instances, their language skills in German are superior to their abilities to speak their parents' mother tongues.

Germany's need for immigration vs. reality
Germany's present deportation policy, however, is in stark contrast to the fact that the country needs immigrants rather urgently: At the end of June, the EU member state passed its new skilled labor migration law to fill the gap of an estimated 400,000 skilled workers.

Economists say, however, that even this target falls short, claiming that Germany needs a net influx of nearly 1.5 million people -- per year.

But not everyone in Germany is in favor of welcoming more foreigners: A survey from May found that one in two Germans are scared of more refugees coming to Germany. Regardless, the government has pledged to invest more into attracting workers from abroad.

This new policy, however, is of little use to the Ovbiagele family; after living in the country for a total of for nine years, Germany eventually threw them out -- shortly before they would finally become ready and able to start giving back.

https://www.infomigrants.net/en/post/50642/germany-four-nigerian-siblings-deported-despite-being-integrated-into-society

People are twisting the stories to gain sympathy.
Meanwhile when you check these people's legal documents, it will tell another story