Overview

• Germany’s Interior Ministry counts more than 10,000 refusals at land borders since tightened checks began in May.
• Roughly 550 of those turned back had sought asylum, according to reporting cited by the article.
• Dobrindt calls the controls a “highly effective measure” and asserts they are consistent with national and European law.
• The Berlin Administrative Court ruled in emergency proceedings that people who request asylum on German territory cannot simply be turned away under Dublin rules.
• The government treats that ruling as applying to individual cases, and Dobrindt declines to set an end date while criticizing states that will not take back applicants they are responsible for.