Building a life in Germany despite threat of deportation
By DW
20 June 2018 |
3:35 pm
The German government no longer sees any reason to delay deportations of rejected Afghan asylum-seekers, although the situation in Afghanistan remains unstable. DW meets a man who may have to return to the country his family was forced to flee.
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