Overview

• The interior minister says more than 10,000 people have been turned back since May, including about 550 who sought asylum at the border.
• Dobrindt argues the measures comply with German and European law, despite successful legal challenges in individual cases.
• The government treats the Berlin administrative court’s ruling as case-specific, maintaining the broader return policy.
• Expanded checks and returns have generated about €80.5 million in extra costs through June and deployed up to 14,000 federal police officers.
• Dobrindt links the duration of the intensified regime to national implementation of the EU asylum reform by mid-2026 and claims irregular arrivals have roughly halved.