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45% more people rejected at German border after checks were stepped up, minister says

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45% more people rejected at German border after checks were stepped up, minister says.

Those rejected included asylum-seekers, Alexander Dobrindt says.

The government under Chancellor Friedrich Merz made tougher migration policy a central plank of his campaign.

Merz told lawmakers on Wednesday that Germany is and will remain “a country of immigration”.