Fabian Schmidt was sitting in deportation in the USA for a long time. Nevertheless, the German wants to try entry again. An expert warns.
His case made headlines worldwide. On Tuesday evening, Fabian Schmidt once again described in detail at “Maischberger” which nightmare had happened to him in the USA in spring. The German electrical engineer has been living there for 18 years. Despite the valid residence permit, he came to deportation when he returned and resorted for two months. “You are treated like a murderer or rapist,” said Schmidt. But he doesn’t want to add small.
- Fabian Schmidt, electrical engineer
- Sandra Navidi, author and US expert
- Roland Berger, management consultant
- Katharina Hamberger, Deutschlandfunk
- Matthias Deiß, ARD Political Journalist
- Hans-Ulrich Jörges, columnist
“I was really afraid,” recalled Schmidt, who was switched off from Washington, DC. He had visited his father in Germany and wanted to return to his wife and little daughter in March. At the airport, however, the GreenCard was immediately taken from him and he was interrogated.
- Fabian Schmidt’s mysterious deportation case
“It was very bad,” said Schmidt about the first surveys. “I sat in a chair for 18 hours. And you couldn’t sleep there either.” The German had to endure a full five days at the airport – without contact with a lawyer, the message or his family.
The lawyer and stock exchange expert Sandra Navidi warned at “Maischberger” that the border was a legal space. The government of Donald Trump lets people disappear and thus panic in the population.
At Schmidt, it was difficult for him that he had stuck with the flu shortly before departure in Germany. “Then I fell over in the bathroom and then I was lying on the floor and had to be taken to the hospital with an ambulance,” said the father.
After five days he was moved to a high -security prison near Boston and was allowed to call his mother for the first time and finally a lawyer and wife. “It was cruel,” said Schmidt from custody. “You don’t see the sun. There are no windows,” he described the conditions. He was brought into the high -security area: “Where I didn’t belong,” said Schmidt.
Only after 62 days Schmidt had his first hearing in court, according to media reports. This ordered his immediate release. The reason for the arrest was apparently a ten -year -old, set procedure for supposed drug possession, reported Maischberger. “The case was done,” said Schmidt.
He was asked every day in prison whether he did not want to give up his GreenCard and return to Germany: “But I said no,” said Schmidt. The monthly imprisonment left in the mid -thirties traces. “I don’t feel so safe because too many things happen, uncontrolled,” he said.
But if you think that Schmidt wants to avoid border controls in the future, you are wrong. At the end of the conversation, Maischberger wanted to know whether Schmidt would visit his family again in Germany. “Or did you shit?” Said the moderator. The electrical engineer took it with humor – and surprised many spectators. “No, I’m coming back in December. I don’t shit. I’ll do it again,” announced Schmidt.
He also wanted to show that “again we don’t have to be so afraid to go on vacation in the USA,” said Schmidt, referring to the 2026 World Cup in North America. “We are happy to share your optimism,” said Maischberger. Navidi had also warned German travelers a few minutes earlier that they could be interned in Cuba.
“This is planned and explicitly for Europeans,” said Navidi. A few days ago, US media had reported that Trump in controversial prison camp Guantánamo wants to detain European citizens-including explicitly Germans-before they are deported.
