(ANSA) - ROMA, AUG 9 - Berlin Reopens the Migrant Front: "They Will Be Deported to Italy." This is reported by *La Repubblica* on its website. According to the newspaper, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, under pressure from polls showing the AfD on the rise, has decided to take a hard line on migrants, particularly toward Italy. On August 19, the first asylum seeker will be turned away in Italy. She is a 22-year-old Somali woman named Abdirisaq Warsame, who arrived in Germany in March. Under the Dublin Regulation, the article explains, since the young woman first entered the EU in Italy, she should have applied for asylum there. Since 2022, the Meloni government had refused to take back the so-called "Dublin cases." In December 2025, Rome and Berlin signed an agreement to "wipe the slate clean" regarding past cases, but a spokesperson for the German Interior Ministry explained to *La Repubblica* that for "Dublin cases" arriving this year, Germany intends to strictly apply European rules and therefore plans to return them to Italy. "A functioning Dublin system is a prerequisite for the success of the European Asylum Reform (GEAS)," the spokesperson stated . "Germany expects transfers to Italy and Greece to resume as of the aforementioned date," that is, June 12, the day the new European asylum rules take effect. It is still unclear how many people would now be returned to Italy. The 22-year-old Somali woman—the first to be deported from Italy—is currently living in a reception center in Niederwerrn, Bavaria. On June 25, she received a letter from the German Ministry of the Interior. "On Wednesday, August 19," reads the document obtained exclusively, "you will be transferred to Italy. The police will come to pick you up." The young woman, who had fled her father and an arranged marriage, arrived in Germany on March 31 after traveling through Italy. Her mother, brother, and other relatives already live in Germany, and it was in Germany that she had applied for asylum. The German Ministry of the Interior, however, has stated that the Somali woman "falls under Italy's jurisdiction" and that "the conditions are not met" for an asylum application in Germany. The document therefore states that Abdirisaq Warsame "must be returned to Italy." A request to the Italian authorities to take back the asylum seeker had already been submitted in June; once the standard two-week period during which the Italian authorities were required to respond to the Germans had passed, tacit consent took effect. "The request" to take Warsame back "is considered accepted," the letter concludes. (ANSA).