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Germany to reject undocumented migrants at border, interior minister says

Migration has become a contentious issue in Germany, the country with the third largest refugee population in the world, with 2.5 million refugees, including more than one million refugees from Ukraine [File: Hannibal Hanschke/EPA]

Germany’s new government has ordered border police to turn away undocumented immigrants, including some asylum seekers, Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt says.

Dobrindt on Wednesday announced the decision to rescind a 2015 instruction that had allowed entry for undocumented third-country nationals, saying the new order is aimed at reducing irregular migration because the numbers were too high.

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