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Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt plans to send up to 3000 additional officers to Germany’s borders, Bild reports.

The new Interior Minister of Germany has issued orders to reject undocumented refugees and migrants and wants to deploy thousands of police officers more at the country’s borders, according to Bild Newpaper.

The publication reported the development on Wednesday, the first day of work for the new government led by El País under Chancellor Friedrich Merz, who has a hard line position on irregular migration.

The report says that the Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt, a member of the Merz conservative block, who has formed a coalition with the Social Democrats (SPD), has raised a 2015 order that allowed the entry to undocumented nationals of the third country.

There were no immediate comments from the Ministry. Dobrindt is scheduled to give journalists a statement later on Wednesday.

Dobrindt also plans to send up to 3,000 additional officers to Germany’s borders to stop irregular migration, which would increase the number of border police to up to 14,000, according to the report, citing unidentified government sources.

The president of the GDP Police Union, Andreas Rosskopf, told the newspaper Rheinische Post that the police have begun to increase the number of officers deployed in the country’s lands after receiving verbal instruction to do so.

The border force has received reorganic lists instructions when necessary “to achieve greater availability,” he said.

The media Der Spiegel reported that Dobrindt had ordered that the additional police be deployed and that they would have to work in shifts up to 12 hours a day to enforce the new regime.

The 2015 instruction was given under the then Foreign Minister Angela Merkel, whose term was defined by the arrival of hundreds of thousands of asylum applicants in Germany, many who flee from the war to Syria.

Before the German elections in February, Merz promised an offensive against migration after a series of violent crimes attributed to foreign citizens amid the growing support for the extreme right.

Since then, his coalition agreed to reject asylum seekers on borders, allow deportations to Syria and suspend family gatherings.

Migration has been a controversial issue in Germany, the third largest country that amounts to the world’s refugees, with 2.5 million refugees, including more than one million refugees in Ukraine. A growing number of German voters say they want the country to accept less migrants.

Immigration and asylum were discussed heatedly before the February elections in which the far -right alternative for Germany (AFD) doubled their participation in the vote.

In April, the country suspended the admission of refugees through a United Nations program, since the SDU of the outgoing center-left formed a new coalition with the right-wing Christian Democrats of Merz (CDU).

Since 2016, Germany had participated in a resettlement scheme of the European Union that accepts refugees selected by UNHCR. Most come from Turkiye, Egypt, Jordan or Kenya.