German Migration Figures Show Alarming Rise in Deportations
According to a recent response from the German government to a parliamentary inquiry by the Left Party, a staggering 6,151 individuals were deported from Germany in the first quarter of 2025. This figure, if extrapolated to the entire year, would result in over 24,000 deportations, a significant increase from the previous years. In 2024, around 20,000 people were deported and in 2023, the number was approximately 16,500.
The rising trend may continue, as the new government, comprising CDU and CSU, has announced plans to increase deportations. The majority of the deportations in the first quarter took place in Turkey, Georgia, France, Spain and Serbia, with 157 individuals sent back to Iraq and five to Iran.
Around 1,700 of the deportations were “Dublin transfers” to other European countries, which are responsible for asylum procedures under the Dublin Regulation. A third of the deportations were carried out using expensive charter flights, with particularly costly operations to Pakistan, Ethiopia and Nigeria, Ghana and Cameroon, which incurred costs of €462,000, €418,000 and €380,000, respectively. In many of these cases, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, Frontex, covered the costs.
Clara Bünger, the Left Party’s spokesperson on migration, has criticized the government’s actions, stating that “brutal and inhumane” police behavior has been observed, with families being torn apart and sick individuals being forcibly removed from hospitals. “The principle seems to be that almost anything can be done with people who are subject to deportation” she lamented.