The Bavarian Refugee Council said that the deportation included "students, refugees with steady jobs and even an individual who had completed a two-year vocational training, but did not complete his permission to stay agreement in time." They claim that no matter how much the asylum seeker can be integrated into German society, there is nothing that can protect an asylum seeker from being deported in Bavaria.

"Whoever is slated to leave Germany and does not leave voluntarily, must expect that they could be forcibly deported to their home country at any country," German Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann (CSU) said.  

The southwestern German state is governed predominately by the Christian Social Union (CSU), a center-right party that has increasingly become tougher on immigration since Germany took in over one million refugees since 2015.  

Harsh policies in Bavaria

"The CSU-led Bavaria continues to distance itself from any refugee policy that is led by reason," Stephan Dünnwald, a speaker of the Bavarian Refugee Council said in a press statement. "We are witnessing the onset of an Orban-inspired defense policy in Bavaria."      

"Many of the Afghans that come to Bavaria feel unsafe and then go on to other countries to try their luck," Agnes Andrae who works for the Bavarian refugee council, told InfoMigrants. The council argues that the CSU and its harsh policies towards migrants create further secondary migration, because the migrants then move on further to other countries. "We say that people shouldn't be sent back to Afghanistan, because Afghanistan is not safe," she said. "We demand the deportations to stop."