A short distance from the border with Poland, Olaf Jansen, the director of a migrant processing centre in eastern Germany, is looking anxiously at the numbers of latest arrivals.
The former barracks turned 1,500-bed facility in Eisenhuettenstadt risks running out of space soon as migrants are turning up in Germany in numbers not seen since 2015, when then chancellor Angela Merkel opened the doors to hundreds of thousands of refugees from Syria and beyond.
The new influx has pushed Olaf Scholz's government to take steps to limit entries into Germany, reignited a bitter debate over immigration and given a push to the far right in the polls.
The Eisenhuettenstadt facility was already hosting 1,400 this week, and while every day, migrants who have received offers of more permanent housing move on, fewer are leaving now as cities and towns report shrinking capacity to take them in.
