Citizenship and Immigration committee  The deportation is only possible if you have the country of origin that is willing to receive the person. If you can't determine his nationality, you're not able to deport him. In German law, which I think is the same according to the return directive, detention for deportation

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We try to check, and the administration tries to find out who he is.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The individual in Germany would get something that's called a duldung. It is a piece of paper that says the person can't be deported at the moment. It has to go to the foreigners administration in order to prolong the duration of the paper. This is necessary in order to get any s

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, we do that.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  My answer to that is it's not possible to keep somebody in detention for deportation.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It's not possible to keep somebody in detention for deportation if there is not a clear perspective of when the person can be deported from the country. If there is no idea about the nationality of the person, there might be difficulties in putting him in detention. What you can

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm sorry. Again, I have to say that we are not in a position to comment on that. We are prepared to answer questions on the legal systematics and not on the material application of law.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Germany determines it, and it's a decision of Parliament.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, detention in Germany is only a means to allow for deportation, and every case has to be assessed on whether there is justification for detention.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes. This is one consequence of the EU return directive.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, we have a general system of administrative courts, and every decision can be appealed to the Federal Administrative Court.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We don't have a distinction between irregular and regular refugees.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm sorry. I have to say that we are not in a position here to comment on that, as the other people who are at the table are....

Citizenship and Immigration committee  From a German point of view, it's not excluded to put families in detention, but as our colleague from the commission said, as far as the EU return directive—which is important in this situation—is concerned, there has to be very strong scrutiny of the principle of proportionalit

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Hello, everybody. By now we have already heard a lot of things about the European system of asylum and immigration, so I will make it very short. The German legislation is influenced by the European legislation—it has to be influenced by it a lot—and therefore I don't want to