Overview

• The municipal council in Schönefeld voted to adopt the development plan required for a centralized migrant entry and exit facility at Berlin Brandenburg Airport
• BBrandenburg’s interior ministry confirmed that the council’s decision fulfills all formal prerequisites for construction to move forward.
• A private investor will build the center and lease it to the state, a model that drew criticism for proceeding without an open public tender.
• About 25 protesters organized by Verein Wir packen’s an delivered a statement signed by over 100 human rights and church groups denouncing the project as a deportation center.
• The facility is scheduled to begin operations in early 2028, consolidating federal and state tasks on migrant entry and exit and including office space rented by the Federal Interior Ministry.