A Day at the German-Czech Border: This Is How 'Returning at the Border' Works

A large green bus is pulled out of the slow-moving procession of vehicles. The eighteen passengers of the Flixbus hand in their identity cards. They are scanned one by one. The control device lights up for a Ukrainian woman. "This one has to come in." In a makeshift police station - a container along the highway - the Ukrainian's details are requested. "On her previous visit, she was in Germany longer than her visa allowed," the officer discover…