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 shocked and devastated," Gawish told DW. "I was kidnapped in Syria and fled through several countries. I would never have imagined that my asylum application would be rejected." His last hope was to file an appeal with the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe, Germany's equivalent of the US Supreme Court. After just two years in Germany, Gawish speaks near-perfect German.…