Why Bother? German Left Says No Point Deporting Afghan Criminals, As They’ll Just Come Back



by Oliver JJ Lane 19 Jul 2025

Dozens of Afghans with serious criminal records were handed $1,100 in cash and put on a plane to Kabul on Friday morning, but a leading figure of Germany’s hard left came out against the idea, stating there was simply no point in trying.

Green party politician Anton Hofreiter — the party of so-called ‘watermelons’ because they are green on the outside but hard-left Marxist reds below the surface — decried the first German deportation flight to Afghanistan of the year taking off on Friday morning, because he found the exercise pointless.

Those aboard would be murdered by the Taliban or would simply break into Germany again, he argued.

He said, reports national broadsheet Die Welt: “Under certain circumstances, some of them might be back here more quickly to commit further crimes in Europe than if they had remained in prison”. It would be safer to keep them in prison indefinitely on the German taxpayer’s dime, he said, while also criticising the government for having recently toughened border checks, arguing it is better to talk rather than throw up walls.

Hofreiter’s interjection came as the first deportation flight to Afghanistan of the year took off from Leipzig to Kabul on Friday morning. There were 81 people aboard, down from the 100 who were meant to fly due to incomplete paperwork, while Afghans are said to have gone to ground recently in a bid to resist being removed.

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