Federal states report numerous Afghans obliged to leave the country for deportation

Over a period of just over ten weeks, the federal states reported around 488 Afghans to the federal police that they wanted to deport to their country of origin. This emerges from an answer from the federal government to a question from MP Clara Bünger (Left). In it, the federal government further states that, to the knowledge of the federal police, 267 people from the group of those for whom a request for administrative assistance was sent to the federal police between July 8th and September 18th had no criminal convictions. That's around 55 percent.

When asked, the Federal Ministry of the Interior told MPs that during this period all federal states except Bremen and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania had reported Afghans who were to be deported to the Federal Police.

In addition to those registered by the federal states to leave the country, there are seven other Afghan nationals who are currently in detention pending deportation at the request of the federal police, as well as one person from Afghanistan who has been taken into custody to ensure deportation.

Since the black-red coalition came to power, a total of 250 Afghan nationals have been repatriated from Germany to Afghanistan. At the end of July, Federal Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt (CSU) declared that returns to Afghanistan would no longer be limited exclusively to criminals and “threats”. Rather, as agreed in the coalition agreement, other people who are obliged to leave the country will also be deported there from now on.

The organization Pro Asyl reported, with reference to a small question in the Bundestag, that at the end of 2025 around 13,000 Afghans who were required to leave the country were living in Germany, of which around 10,000 were in possession of a tolerated permit. This means that they cannot be deported for the time being. Critics, for example from the ranks of the Greens and the Left Party, have repeatedly complained that the federal government is making concessions to enable deportations even though it does not recognize the Taliban government in Afghanistan - due, among other things, to its human rights violations.

“Germany is deporting people who have done nothing wrong to a country where an Islamist terror regime, arbitrary violence and extreme hardship prevail,” said Bünger, accusing the federal government of disregarding human rights. The Bundeswehr has fought the Taliban militarily for years. Germany is now cooperating with the Taliban and delivering people to them via deportation flights.