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Germany deported 60 percent more migrants last year than in 2014, the government said Wednesday, with figures from January and February showing that the pace of repatriations further accelerating.
Some 22,369 people were forcibly returned to their countries of origin in 2015, up from 13,851 the previous year.
In the first two months of this year close to 4,500 people were repatriated -- twice as many as in January and February 2015.