Why Europe Is Deporting Its Afghan Migrants
Hofmannstrasse 69, in the German city of Munich, looks like most other office complexes. Once the headquarters of the German engineering giant Siemens, the rectangular, white building is now home to 680 migrants waiting for the German government to decide their future.
Among them is 30-year-old Abdullah (not his real name), his two brothers, his wife and their three children. The family—who asked to remain anonymous because their asylum application is ongoing—arrived in Germany in September last year, after fleeing the Afghan capital of Kabul.
The Taliban, Abdullah says, had begun sending him death threats because of his work as a journalist. (Abdullah, who asked to keep his newspaper’s name anonymous, wrote many articles critical of the group.) , he says. “I was in the car with my father and my brother on the way to work,” he recalls. “A bomb went off in front of our car, by a mosque.” The.
