Overview
- Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt created the role within the Interior Ministry to increase the number of returns of rejected asylum seekers.
- Diplomat Ludwig Jung will transfer from the Foreign Office and start as migration ambassador on January 19.
- His mandate focuses on placing people without a right to stay in Germany in states outside the EU, with potential onward return to their countries of origin.
- The federal government says it is in talks with EU member states about developing innovative third-country arrangements.
- Critics question the legality of these models, and prior deportations frequently failed because origin countries declined to readmit their nationals.