BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Olaf Scholz says Germany needs to start deporting “on a large scale” migrants who don't have the right to stay in the country, adding to increasingly tough talk on migration since his coalition performed badly in two state elections earlier this month.
Mainstream conservatives won both votes and the far-right Alternative for Germany made significant gains.
Last week, Scholz announced legislation to ease deportations of unsuccessful asylum-seekers.
On Monday, the government notified the European Commission of temporary border controls at the Polish, Czech and Swiss frontiers.
He argued that there needs to be a “fundamental turnaround in migration policy.”Asked what the chancellor thought of that idea, Scholz spokesperson Steffen Hebestreit replied: “Nothing.”
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