On March 20, only days before Friedrich Merz and interim Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa raised the issue of repatriating hundreds of thousands of Syrians , Basel Gawish received a letter from the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF). It was the letter that the 31-year-old Syrian had always feared: It stated that his asylum application had been rejected, that he was not eligible for subsidiary protection status and that he had to leave Germany within 30 days. "I was completely