‘DON’T COME HERE!’ Merkel migrant U-turn as Germany orders EU to SEND BACK boats to Africa, by Nick Gutteridge.

ANGELA Merkel today performed an extraordinary U-turn on mass migration as Germany ordered the EU to begin turning back boats full of asylum seekers crossing the Mediterranean.

Her interior ministry said Brussels should send out patrols to intercept smugglers’ vessels and escort them back to north Africa, marking a massive shift in Germany’s official migration policy.

At the moment the EU and member states operate search and rescue operations to save refugees crossing the Mediterranean in often unseaworthy ships, who are then brought to the European mainland to claim asylum.

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