Baden-Württemberg plans 3.2 million euros more for deportations in 2027

Finance committee backs extra funding

According to a decision by the Baden-Württemberg finance committee, the state wants to spend an additional 3.2 million euros next year on asylum border procedures, migration administration and the Sonderstab Gefährliche Ausländer. The state parliament only decides on the 2027 budget on 16 December. CDU spokesman Steffen Tanneberger said that, because the parliamentary majorities are also reflected in the committee, nothing now stands in the way of the decision politically.

Digitalisation and EU asylum rules1.4

Pforzheim border procedure places0.8

Sonderstab Gefährliche Ausländer1

Digitalisation and EU asylum rules

1.4 million euros

Pforzheim border procedure places

0.8 million euros

Sonderstab Gefährliche Ausländer

1 million euros

Data from the article text

Where the money goes

About 1.4 million euros and six new posts are planned for digitalisation in migration administration and for implementing European asylum rules. A further 26 existing posts at the regional councils (Regierungspräsidien) would be extended. 800,000 euros is earmarked for 15 places in the EU asylum border procedure in Pforzheim, a procedure that covers, among others, asylum seekers with a low protection rate who could be deported directly if their application is rejected. The Sonderstab Gefährliche Ausländer would receive one million euros for 20 new posts.

Political statements

Tobias Vogt, leader of the CDU parliamentary group, said the turnaround in migration policy has been initiated.

He added that the new course has to be enforced every day, and that particular consistency was required for foreign criminals obliged to leave and for people posing a threat. Bastian Schneider, the CDU group's spokesman on migration policy, put the aim of the policy in a single sentence.

“We want to clarify early on who may stay here and who may not.”

Deportation figures and criticism

Up to the end of September this year, about 2,100 people were deported from Baden-Württemberg. Across the whole of last year the figure was 3,397. Deportations to Afghanistan have repeatedly drawn criticism. Afghanistan is in a severe humanitarian crisis, and the World Food Programme of the United Nations has warned that malnutrition there has reached a scale not seen before.

2026 (to end of September)2,100

2025 (full year)3,397

2026 (to end of September)

2100 people

2025 (full year)

3397 people

Data from the article text