Germany's Seehofer launches migrant plan with 'birthday' jab at deportees

German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer, waging a battle within Chancellor Angela Merkel's ruling coalition for tighter immigration controls, noted with satisfaction on Tuesday that 69 Afghans had been deported on his 69th birthday. Seehofer was launching his "Migration Masterplan", hoping to set his stamp on a tougher border- and migration-control policy for Germany - one at odds with the open-doors policy Merkel announced at the height of the 2015 refugee crisis. By staking out a hard line, Seehofer is trying to bolster his Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU) in October's regional elections, where it faces a stiff challenge from the far right.

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