FILE PHOTO: People protest against the German government's decision to deport migrants who were denied asylum, at Duesseldorf Airport, Germany September 12, 2017. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay/File Photo
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany failed to deport 27,000 rejected asylum seekers last year, nearly half of the total 57,000 cases, Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said on Sunday, adding that the government would step up efforts to get those migrants out of the country.
Seehofer, a member of the Bavarian sister party of Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives, is one of the sharpest critics of her decision in 2015 to open Germany's borders to more than 1 million refugees.
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