Overview
- Bundespolizei-verified data show 22,787 deportations were carried out in 2025, while 32,855 attempts failed before handover to federal officers and a further 1,593 failed after handover at airports.
- The most frequent single cause was that people could not be found at their registered address in 21,341 cases, with another 11,184 deportations canceled in advance by authorities.
- Hesse’s interior minister Roman Poseck proposes targeted mobile-phone location only when a deportee is not found at a scheduled pickup, a plan Saxony’s Armin Schuster supports.
- Schuster also calls for much broader use of deportation detention and for EU-level steps to free regular prison places for such custody.
- BAMF chief Hans-Eckhard Sommer argues for higher payments to encourage voluntary return, while government figures indicate deportations per month fell from 2,035 (Jan–Apr 2025) to 1,831 (May–Dec) and 232,067 people were obligated to leave as of December 31, 2025.