The Federal Ministry of the Interior’s response to a query from AfD MP Leif-Erik Holm shows that 9,663 people were deported between January and June 2026. This marks a decline compared to the first half of 2025, when more than 11,800 were deported. At the same time, the current figure is above the level of the first half of 2024, when just under 9,500 people had to leave the country.
Holm, who is running for the post of Minister-President in the September state election in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, called migration policy a “disaster.” The promised deportation offensives were “pure damp squibs,” said Holm. Federal Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt (CSU), on the other hand, said this week that the migration turnaround would be pushed forward “with control, course, and a clear edge.”
In addition to deportations, 9,276 people voluntarily left the country in the first half of the year, supported by the federal-state program REAG/GARP. Germany had recently deported people to Afghanistan again; critics criticize the cooperation with the Taliban ruling there.
Source: www.spiegel.de
