Overview

• Bavaria counted 6,760 new asylum applicants in the first half of 2025, a 57% drop from the same period in 2024.
• Deportations and voluntary departures rose to 9,350, including 674 criminal offenders who comprised about 38% of all removals.
• State leaders credit harsher measures—intensified border checks at Austrian and Czech crossings and the Bezahlkarte payment card—for the shifts in arrivals and departures.
• Occupancy in Bavarian asylum shelters fell from 138,000 to 128,800 residents but remains at roughly 87% capacity.
• The Bavarian Refugee Council labels the Migrationswende as populist agitation and accuses authorities of unlawful pushbacks.