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Immigration law in Germany is regulated in some detail the issue of obtaining the right to stay for refugees anticipating any possible irregularities in the process of migration and trying to counteract them. It is not possible to obtain refugee status by a refugee who has taken action detrimental to the host country or has committed criminal acts violating the rules of security and public order. Until World War II Germany was a country from which people used to emigrate, primarily to North America. Thereafter, Germany began to accept refugees as the so-called guest workers. Now as many as 29% of the population has migrant roots. Currently, Germany is coping with a huge stream of refugees, which, on the one hand, give rise to racist and xenophobic tendencies and, on the other hand, leads to implementation of a range of initiatives to integrate migrants into society.