Around one third of the 5,500 planned deportations of failed asylum seekers and illegal immigrants failed last year, the NRC reported on Thursday, quoting monitoring committee figures.

In around half of cases, the asylum seeker made a new, last-minute request to be allowed to stay, the committee said. Government plans to reduce the right of appeal agreed in 2008 have not yet been put into practice, the paper says.
Around 20% of deportations fail because of procedural errors by officials in charge of the service, such as failing to inform the border police or failing to get the deportee to the airport on time.
And a further 25% of cases collapse because the would-be refugee does not have the proper paperwork, the paper says.
Violent resistance led to 200 deportations being delayed.
Justice minister Ernst Hirsch Ballin told MPs that this year officials are to experiment with fitting violent deportees with a special mask which stops them biting and spitting.