In a resounding 509 to 138 result, the Bundestag has voted to classify the northern African states of Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco - along with Georgia in the Caucasus - as safe countries of origin for the purposes of German immigration law.
Germany on Tuesday took in a 95-year-old former guard at a Nazi labour camp where more than 6,000 people were killed, after he was stripped of his US citizenship.
The scandal over the deportation of Sami A., an alleged former bodyguard of Osama Bin Laden, continued on Monday with authorities reportedly blacklisting the 44-year-old Tunisian from entering Germany.
The over-hasty deportation of an alleged Islamist to Tunisia is raising awkward questions for German authorities all the way up to the Interior Ministry.
The murder of a girl in Wiesbaden is polarizing the debate about refugees and criminality. The brutal crime is just the latest in which an asylum seeker is the chief suspect.
German media reported on Wednesday that the government will for now end controversial mass deportations of Afghan asylum seekers, and only deport people in certain cases.
A 15-year-old girl from Duisburg who had been deported to Nepal with her parents two months ago was greeted with tears and smiles as she finally returned to Germany.
The European Court of Human Rights on Wednesday blocked Germany's planned deportation of a Russian 18-year-old, who had been deemed a potentially "dangerous" Islamist.
A Nepalese teenager, who was born in Germany, was told in the middle of class at her high school that she would be deported in late May. Now she has been allowed to come back to the country.
Germany has temporarily suspended the group deportations of rejected Afghan asylum seekers following the Kabul truck bomb attack, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday.
Around 300 students at a vocational school in Nuremberg staged a spontaneous demonstration to protest the deportation of their 20-year-old Afghan classmate on Wednesday.
Germany said on Wednesday it had postponed a scheduled deportation flight of rejected Afghan asylum seekers after a Kabul truck bomb attack killed 80 and wounded hundreds.
The German parliament on Thursday night passed a controversial package of stricter rules for asylum seekers, including allowing immigration officials to analyze refugees’ cell phone data.
A German man who has been essentially living at a Sao Paulo airport after he ran out of money to fly home, now faces deportation as well as accusations that he attacked at least seven women.
Germany said on Tuesday it will deport two men arrested on suspicion of planning a terror attack, despite the fact that while their parents are foreigners, they were both born in the country.
The ongoing legal battle has come to an end over whether to deport the man who fatally struck a young woman in a case that shook millions across Germany.
The German government agreed on new rules on Wednesday to speed up deportations of rejected asylum seekers. This map shows that over a quarter of failed asylum seekers who haven't been sent home live in one state.
Germany deported a second batch of would-be Afghan refugees to Kabul Tuesday under a disputed Afghan-EU deal signed last October and aimed at curbing the influx of immigrants.
Tunisia will "assume its responsibilities" on unwanted immigrants, President Beji Caid Essebsi said on Thursday after Germany threatened to cut development aid to countries that stall on the return of rejected asylum seekers.
Justice Minister Heiko Maas wants to strengthen security measures by tracking dangerous suspects with ankle monitors, as officials debate tough new protocols following the Berlin attack.
The capital city is considering allowing rejected asylum seekers the chance to stay in Germany if they are victims of far-right violence, as a way of sending a "strong signal" to perpetrators of racist crimes.
