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When the Emergency Never Ends (opens the original)
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Germany's internal border checks were supposed to be temporary. Introduced in 2015 as an emergency response, they've now become a familiar part of daily life across much of Europe. Reporter Sam Baker travels to Germany's borders with France and the Netherlands, where commuters sit in traffic, businesses absorb mounting costs, and local leaders question whether the checkpoints make anyone safer. Along the way, she meets journalist Sandra Alloush, whose experience at one of these border checks cha
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