Overview
- North Rhine-Westphalia is continuing plans for a second deportation detention facility on the former JHQ site in Mönchengladbach.
- The state real estate agency BLB says the required feasibility study is finished and user requirements have been aligned with the regional authority and ministry.
- The Federal Defence Ministry has paused civilian use of the JHQ and is reported to prefer co-use, introducing legal and scheduling uncertainty.
- The planned facility near Düsseldorf Airport is intended to provide up to about 140 places for people classified as obliged to leave the country.
- The SPD has requested an Aktuelle Viertelstunde with 17 questions in the Landtag and highlights an estimated cost of roughly €200 million as well as staffing strains at the existing 175-place Büren site.