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               Minister: Germany Rejecting 10 Percent of Migrants

   by VOA News

   Germany is still taking in around 2,000 refugees a day, but it is now
   denying entry to about 200 others daily at its borders, the country's
   interior minister said Sunday.

   The tighter border controls come after the EU's top economy last year
   took in a record 1.1 million refugees and migrants, straining resources
   and sparking heated political debate.

   "People who are fleeing war and persecution are offered security and
   protection in Germany," the minister, Thomas de Maiziere, told the
   newspaper Bild am Sonntag.

   "But that also means those who do not seek this protection from us are
   refused entry at the border," he said. "Anyone who doesn't want to
   apply for political asylum in Germany and wants to illegally enter
   Germany has no right to be here."

   So far this year, federal police had rejected up to 200 people a day,
   he said -- compared to just 400 people in all of October when border
   controls and registration procedures buckled under a mass influx.

   The ministry said that so far this year, despite winter, about 2,000
   refugees had arrived every day.
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