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Every time I wonder whether the immigration authorities here could possibly act any more inhumane, inevitably a few weeks later I'll read another newspaper article proving that, yes, of course they can. Since the article is in German, it reports the case of a family whose father immigrated here with a false passport about 30 years ago, but the authorities only noticed 1998. Before they revoked his legal immigration status he always had a job, never committed any crimes, the children were both born here and go to school, and yet now the whole family, i.e. he and his wife and the 7 and 10 year old children, face deportation to Mali by mid-March. I mean, wtf?!