Deportation: More than one in ten is a minor offset

More than eleven percent of people deported from Germany last year were children and adolescents. This emerges from a response from the federal government to a parliamentary request from the left. According to this, 20,084 people from Germany were deported last year, 2,316 of which were between 6 and 18 years old, as the Editorial Network Germany (RND) reported. This corresponds to a quota of 11.5 percent. The answer is also available to the German Press Agency.

The quota has been stable at over 11 percent since 2022. In the first half of 2025, 1,345 children and young people came to 11,807. That is 11.4 percent. The answer nevertheless shows that the number of deportations has increased significantly in the years of the traffic light coalition – from 12,945 in 2022 to 16.430 in 2023 to 20.084 in 2024.

Bartsch: Children belong to school, not in the deportation trailer

The left-wing member of the Bundestag Dietmar Bartsch criticized the deportation of minors. “To deport more and more children from Germany, do not solve a problem – it is a problem! Cold -heartedness must not be a political style or policy goal of our country. In the first half of the year, more school -age children were deported than a few years ago,” said Bartsch. “What is the point should it have to deport children who learn here who are growing here, which are integrated here – the specialists of tomorrow – and their families,” asked Bartsch. He emphasized: “Children belong to school – not in the deportation trailer.”