Germany deported about 23,000 people in 2025, a figure that the federal interior ministry’s data report-relayed by “Die Welt”-shows to be 15 % higher than the roughly 20,000 deportations in 2024 and about 45 % more than the 16,000 deported in 2023.
Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt (CSU) told “Die Welt” that the country is restoring “migration order” through higher repatriation numbers, fewer pull‑factors and tighter controls, asserting that the so‑called “migration turnaround” is taking effect.
That same week, the government deported another Syrian offender. He was routed by commercial airliner to Damascus. The man, who had last lived in Baden-Württemberg, had repeatedly committed crimes in Germany and had been sentenced by a German court to several years in prison on multiple drug‑related convictions.
