ActionAid Report: in 2025 record number of admissions to CPRs but repatriations from the facilities are decreasing

In 2025, Italy carried out 4,784 forced repatriations. Only 1,732 were created starting from the Cpr-Repatriation detention centres; the majority (3,052) were carried out among people who had never entered a CPR.

In the same year, 6,835 admissions to the CPR were recorded, a record. More detention does not mean more repatriations: in 2025 there was a peak in overall forced repatriations, while those carried out by CPRs decreased by 45.1% compared to 2022.

ActionAid Italia says so with 'Expulsions. An analysis of the Italian repatriation policy, 2015-2025', the new report created with the Department of Political Sciences of the University of Bari Aldo Moro, published together with the update of the open data platform Trattenuti.

The report offers - say the promoters - "the first analysis of the functioning of the Italian repatriation policy between 2015 and 2025, based on data obtained from requests for access to ministries and Prefectures".

Between 2022 and 2025 the growth in repatriations occurs outside the CPRs. In 2022, ten CPRs were operational with 6,457 entries and 3,154 repatriations starting from the CPRs. In 2025 the CPRs will rise to eleven. Entrances increase, but repatriations from CPRs drop to 1,732. In the same period, forced repatriations grew by 22.2%, from 3,916 to 4,784, because those carried out outside the CPR quadrupled, from 762 to 3,052.