Courtesy of Mish.
The debate in Germany over chancellor Angela Merkel’s open arms welcome of refugees is increasingly vocal and cantankerous on both the Left and Right.
Support for her policies will vanish as soon as there is a major incident such as we have seen in Paris, Nice, or Brussels.
Unfortunately, such an incident is increasingly likely.
The Financial Times reports Merkel Critics Turn on Refugee Policy as Germans Confront Terror.
Select Quotes
- “We are definitely capable of accommodating these people and making sure they have enough to eat and drink,” says Florian Hahn, an MP from the CSU, the Bavaria-based sister party to Ms Merkel’s CDU. “But actually integrating them individually, and making sure they get the right psychiatric treatment, is impossible. There are just too many.”
- Sahra Wagenknecht, co-leader of Die Linke, the leftwing opposition party, said the attacks showed the task of integrating huge numbers of refugees “is harder than Merkel, with her frivolous ‘we can do it’ slogan of last autumn, would have us believe”.
- Andreas Scheuer, the CSU party’s general secretary says all migrants who have come to Germany in recent years need to undergo stringent security checks. “The information they volunteer about themselves is not enough,” he told local media. “Every single refugee should be personally interviewed and subjected to thorough screening to avoid a generalised suspicion [towards all refugees].”
- Joachim Herrmann, Bavaria’s CSU interior minister, even suggested that Germany should be allowed to deport refugees back to war zones such as Syria if they have committed crimes. Government officials insist that is forbidden under the Geneva Convention.
- A backlash is brewing even in the chancellor’s own CDU party. “We have apparently imported a few completely brutal people, capable of barbaric crimes,” said Frank Henkel, Berlin’s interior minister. “We must state that clearly, and without taboos.”
- Thomas de Maizière, Merkel’s interior minister insists is fine. “The vast majority of refugees come to us for other reasons [than to commit violence] — either because they’re persecuted or expect a better life here,” said de Maizière.
Everything Fine?
Point number six is mathematically true. But let’s let’s did a little deeper starting with the March 2016 BBC report Migration to Europe Explained in Seven Charts.
Origin of Refugees
