Overview

• Dobrindt is pushing to allow open‑ended detention for deportable offenders and to impose permanent entry bans, arguing for a tougher line under the new EU asylum framework.
• SPD-led interior ministries call indefinite detention likely unconstitutional, with legal scholars echoing doubts and Pro Asyl deeming the idea incompatible with rule‑of‑law standards.
• The EU Commission’s draft return regulation caps detention at 24 months and permits longer terms only in severe cases, which Dobrindt wants Germany to enable in national law.
• EU interior ministers meet on October 14 in Luxembourg to discuss the solidarity pool and other GEAS details as Germany also advocates return hubs in third countries and domestic secondary‑migration centers with residence obligations.
• Capacity constraints complicate enforcement, with most of the 790 deportation‑custody places reportedly occupied and 226,000 people obliged to leave Germany, while media reports suggest Dobrindt seeks broader returns to Syria, which has not been confirmed by the government.