Germany is building a "deportations terminal" at Munich airport in a bid to speed up the removal of illegal migrants from the country.
Planning documents seen by German newspaper Die Welt report a new 60x66m zone will be included at the airport to solely deal with checking in and removing migrants.
Earmarked to be completed by 2028, the terminal would process up to 50 flights per day at Germany's second largest airport.
It comes as Friedrich Merz aims to crackdown on mass migration after a series of deadly terror attacks by Syrian and Afghan asylum seekers.
The city of Munich saw tens of thousands of asylum seekers arrive during the height of the 2015 refugee crisis with then-Chancellor Angela Merkel opened the country's borders to hundreds of thousands of migrants from the Middle East.
Merz, who recently met with Sir Keir Starmer, has raised concerns about Germany being overwhelmed by the influx of asylum seekers over the last decade.
The German Chancellor also criticised Merkel, who was also a part of the centre-right Christian Democratic Union, for her decision.
"We clearly did not cope with it," Merz said last week in reference to Merkel's open borders slogan "wir schaffen das" or in English "we can manage it".
REUTERS | German Chancellor Friedrich MerzEver since becoming Chancellor, Merz has told border guards to turn asylum seekers away and vowed to speed up deporting those who are illegally in the country.
Meanwhile, Germany last week deported dozens of Afghan citizens.
Berlin's deportation list included sex offenders and violent criminals who were sent back to Kabul in what appears to be an indirect deal with the Taliban.
A Qatar Airways jet flew the 81 Afghans out of Germany from Leipzig airport.
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|A deportations terminal is being built at Munich Airport
German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt warned that "serious criminal offenders have no right to reside in our country".
The previous administration, led by centre-left politician Olaf Scholz, was arranged to send back Afghans.
Public mood in Germany surrounding Merkel's 2015 decision also appeared to propel Alternative für Deutschland into second place in February's federal elections.
Official statistics have shown a significant drop in the number of migrants and refugees coming to the country with a drop of 30 per cent last year.