Germany’s opposition leader has vowed to bar people from entering the country without proper papers and to step up deportations if he is elected as chancellor next month

Friedrich Merz, currently leading in polls to become German chancellor, said Thursday if elected he will impose strict border controls.

A deadly knife attack on a kindergarten group in Germany, where an Afghan man was arrested at the scene, reignited a bitter immigration debate Thursday, a month before elections.Germany was stunned by what was the latest in a series of bloody attacks,