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Under a proposed law, Germany's Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) would be allowed to examine refugees' mobiles to establish their identity. The bill aims to prevent refugees from giving false identities.
BAMF, which is currently dealing with a backlog of some 430,000 unprocessed asylum applications, last week called for all refugees currently living in Germany to be fingerprinted in order to cut down on false identities.
In some case, asylum-seekers lie about their identity out of fear of imminent deportation. Others, however, had lied in order to carry out benefit fraud.
Earlier this month, a 25-year-old asylum-seeker in Hannover was handed a 21-month suspended sentence including 200 hours of community service for fraud, after admitting to having registered in several cities across Germany under seven different names in order to obtain social benefits.
German migration office to check asylum seekers? phones in identity crackdown | News | DW.COM | 19.02.2017
Do you think the German migration office should begin searching through everyone's phone who is applying for asylum?
Ive now seen multiple stories involving refugee men who collect welfare in several different German cities at once. I see no other choice than for German officials if they're facing massive amounts of welfare fraud, than to begin searching phones.