The new German government’s policy of turning asylum seekers away at its borders is illegal, a court ruled Monday, dealing a blow to one of conservative Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s flagship measures.

“Persons who express the wish to seek asylum while at a border check on German territory may not be sent back” before it has been determined which state is responsible for processing the claim under the EU’s so-called “Dublin” system, Berlin’s Administrative Court said in a statement.

Monday’s decision follows an appeal made by three Somali nationals who went through an immigration check at a train station on the Polish border on May 9.

They expressed their wish to claim asylum but were sent back to Poland the same day.

The court said that their pushback was illegal and that its “findings

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