In a remarkable achievement for its immigration policies, Switzerland has secured the highest deportation rate in Europe for 2024, successfully removing 7,000 asylum seekers—an 18% increase from the previous year. Beat Jans, the federal councilor responsible for asylum, attributed this success to enhanced collaboration with the cantons and strategic agreements with transit and origin countries. As Switzerland continues to navigate its immigration landscape, these developments prompt a closer look at the broader implications for European migration policies.
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As of 2024, Switzerland's deportation success stands out starkly against the backdrop of lower rates in countries like France and Germany. The country's strategic negotiations have not only reduced the number of incoming refugees but have also facilitated smoother deportations, particularly with countries like Algeria. The Swiss parliament is pushing for new agreements, such as one with Morocco, which could further enhance these efforts. Meanwhile, other European nations are struggling to execute their deportation policies effectively, raising questions about their approaches to immigration and security amidst rising public concern over crime linked to migration.
InfoWars: Switzerland is excelling at removing immigrants slated for deportation, achieving the highest rate in Europe in 2024 with a 60 percent deportation rate and boosting its own progress by 18 percent over 2023.
In total, Switzerland was able to remove 7,000 asylum seekers in 2024, said Beat Jans, the federal councilor responsible for asylum, while speaking at the WEF.
When asked how Switzerland was so successful at returns, Jans said it was by working better with the cantons, which is the term for federal states of Switzerland, according to Swiss outlet RTS.
Jans said it was a “good development” and praised the work of the State Secretariat for Migration (SEM), which is responsible for obtaining the necessary documents to ensure speedy returns.
Nevertheless, Jans said that pressure on the cantons remains high, even with the high rate of returns. He said he wants to further develop agreements between different countries to ensure deportations can occur.
“Fewer refugees are arriving in Switzerland because we have negotiated better agreements with transit countries, but also with countries of origin to ensure that fewer people put themselves in danger by fleeing. This is a path that Switzerland has paved with its 66 migration agreements. This is a good thing for the people concerned, but also for us as a country,” explained Jans.
According to the Swiss newspaper Aargauer Zeitung, many of those returned went back to Algeria, which Switzerland signed a readmission agreement with in 2006.
Now, the Swiss parliament is pushing for an agreement with Morocco, which could boost Switzerland’s rate even higher.
Other countries like Germany and France feature an abysmal deportation rate. As Remix News has previously reported, France’s decoration rate hovers between 8 and 15 percent, despite promises from French President Emmanuel Macron to achieve a 100 percent deportation rate. In some cases, such as Algeria, France has only managed to deport 0.2 percent of the migrants slated for deportation.
In the case of Germany, after each new terrorist attack in recent months, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has claimed that the government would get “serious” about deportations; however, deportations are still not happening and murders keep piling up, including the stabbing deaths this week of a 2-year-old boy and a 41-year-old man in Bavaria while they were out in a park with a kindergarten group. Other members of the group, aged between one and three, were also stabbed.
The deportation rate is so abysmal, and Scholz’s refrain becoming so tired, that even German state media, which is known for its friendly coverage of the left-liberal ruling government, is beginning to question Scholz’s ability to get mass migration under control.
Notably, the left-liberal government has blocked all deportations to countries like Afghanistan, arguing the country is too unsafe for people to be sent back there. Afghans have some of the highest crime rates in all of Germany and have been largely an integration failure.