State-funded website in Germany teaches migrants how to avoid deportation

Not only do they provide legal advice, but the editors of the site also encourage violence against migrants.

An investigation by the German news portal Apollo News revealed that there is an online platform funded by the German government and the European Union, which aims to provide migrants with practical and legal advice so that they can resist possible deportations in Germany in the name of the “right to stay” for everyone.

The website, called “Handbook Germany,” takes the form of an information page for migrants arriving in Germany, seemingly innocuous with a program titled “orientieren-informieren-austauschen” (orient yourself, inform yourself, exchange information).

However, according to the European Conservative, a closer look reveals that the site serves a militant and openly declared political program:

against deportations and for the right to free movement for everyone.”

The site offers a whole range of practical advice for asylum seekers to avoid their impending deportation, providing information on the conditions that prevent deportation – such as pretending that their child has disappeared, as a family with a missing child cannot be deported.

In case their asylum application is rejected, the website encourages migrants to seek legal redress: “go to court at the Federal Migration and Asylum Agency or file a complaint, bearing in mind that the costs can be covered by the state,” the site reads. Contact details for counseling centers and lawyers for migrants are also provided.

But that’s not all. In the event that the deportation request is approved, the site goes so far as to support physical resistance, advising rejected applicants to “defend themselves” on the plane,

“make it clear that they are not boarding the plane voluntarily.” The site also advises Germans, if they witness such a case – as passengers, for example – to actively resist in support of the migrants.

According to the European Conservative, the existence of such a site is hardly surprising: in Germany, as elsewhere, numerous pro-immigration associations and lobbies seek to circumvent the law and ensure that migrants can stay in the host country at all costs, even by violating the law.

The shocking nature of the Handbook Germany site arises from the fact that it receives support from several German public institutions.

According to the impressum, a list of prestigious institutions supporting the editorial board (which includes only two names that sound German out of about fifteen members) can be seen: the Federal Ministry of the Interior, the Federal Migration, Refugee and Integration Office, all at the initiative of the Federal Parliament.

The support for the site raises questions, especially because the German federal government is currently trying to convince voters to take a firm stance on migration policy, just before the upcoming state elections.