Overview

• National asylum first-time applications fell by 48 percent in January–May 2025 compared to the same period last year.
• Arrivals in Saxony-Anhalt dropped from 399 in June 2024 to 170 in June 2025.
• Berlin’s Senate Interior Administration deported 804 people in the first half of 2025, up from 515 a year earlier, with most removed to Moldova and Georgia.
• In May 2025, Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt ordered intensified border controls and the Bundestag suspended family reunification for refugees with limited protection status for two years.
• Conservative CDU figures praise the enforcement gains, and Green and SPD politicians warn the measures could breach legal and humanitarian norms.