Germany Toughens Border Controls With Migration Tensions Rising
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A German border police officer stops cars in a checkpoint at the German-French border near Rastatt, Germany.
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Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s ruling coalition agreed to temporarily extend frontier controls to all nine of Germany’s land borders as part of a crackdown on irregular immigration and an effort to strengthen domestic security.
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