STORY: Germany has acted unlawfully by turning away asylum seekers at the border.That’s the ruling from a Berlin court on Monday, citing a case in which border police expelled three Somalis who tried to enter the country from Poland.

Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Tuesday a court ruling that German authorities acted unlawfully when border police expelled three Somali asylum seekers could restrict his government's migration crackdown but would not stop it altogether.

A Berlin court has ruled against Germany's policy of rejecting asylum seekers at the border, stating it violates asylum rights unless the EU's Dublin