Overview
- From May 8 through year-end, officers recorded 33,338 unauthorized entries and turned back 24,400 people at land crossings, according to figures reported by AFP.
- Across all borders for 2025, the Bundespolizei logged 62,526 unauthorized entries, the lowest tally since 2021 after 83,572 in 2024 and 127,549 in 2023.
- BILD cites the force’s annual balance listing 67,918 unauthorized entries and 46,426 refusals or pushbacks, reflecting differing scopes and time windows from other tallies.
- Enforcement results included 1,065 suspected smugglers provisionally detained and 5,906 arrests on warrants in the tightened-controls period per AFP, while BILD reports 1,945 suspected smugglers, 11,348 warrants executed, 1,763 identified extremists, and 513 people refused for existing entry bans.
- The government has extended stationary checks at all nine land borders to March 15, 2026, with exemptions for vulnerable people as 242 asylum requests citing vulnerability were noted and refusals included roughly 1,200 safe-third-state cases and 1,253 re-entry bans.