Germany Border Controls Immigration announced on Monday it would extend temporary controls to all its land borders.
Beginning on September 16 and lasting for the first six months, restrictions will be placed within the European Schengen zone, which is typically a large area of unfettered movement.
It unveiled plans on Tuesday to tighten the application of EU refugee regulations, including the detention of asylum applicants while officials decide whether Germany should handle their case.
Among other resources, police might use Eurodac, the common fingerprint database for Europe.
The administration, along with others, believed that the opposition conservatives’ request to automatically deny asylum applicants at the borders violated EU law, thus it rejected it.
