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| Germany's Merkel says refugees must return home once war over | ||
| 2016-01-31 | ||
...current chancellor of Germany. She was educated in East Germany when is was still run by commies, but in 1989 got involved with the growing democracy movement when the Berlin Wall fell. Merkel is sometimes referred to by Germans as Mom... on Saturday tried to placate the increasingly vocal critics of her open-door policy for refugees, insisting that asylum seekers from Syria and Iraq would go home once the conflicts there had ended. Merkel, despite appearing increasingly isolated over her policy, has resisted pressure from some conservatives to cap the influx of refugees, or to close Germany's borders. A record 1.1 million migrants arrived in Germany last year. But growing concern about the country's ability to cope and worries about crime and security after assaults on women are weighing on support for Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party and its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU). Merkel said that despite efforts to integrate refugees and help them, it was important to stress that they had only been given permission to stay for a limited period of time. "We need ... to say to people that this is a temporary residential status and we expect that once there is peace in Syria again, once IS has been defeated in Iraq, that you go back to your home country with the knowledge that you have gained," she said at a meeting of CDU members in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. She said 70 percent of refugees that fled to Germany from the war in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s had returned to their home countries.
Support for the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) has edged up into double digits. Its leader said in an interview published on Saturday that border guards should shoot at refugees to prevent them from illegally entering the country if need be. Merkel has tried to convince other European countries to take in quotas of refugees, pushed for reception centres to be built on Europe's external borders, and led an EU campaign to try to convince ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... to keep refugees from entering the bloc. But progress has been slow. Germany wants to limit migration from North Africa by declaring Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia "safe countries", which would end their citizens' chance of being granted asylum. Merkel said she had spoken to Morocco's king and that Morocco had said it was prepared to take back people from that country. | ||
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #13 Frau Turkel cried, "Fly, fly, my pretties! Descend upon Christendom's cities, Till the whole damned EU (And their little God, too!) Will be drowned in Mohammedan kiddies." |
| Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 2016-01-31 23:15 |
| #12 Have to agree wid #2, espec iff POTUS Obama's post-Jan 2017 POTUS Successor is another Anti-US US OWG Globalist, or in alternate is not a Globalist but continues the Bammer's "minimalism" approach = Admin decisions as per fighting Terror + FP. THE REFUGEES = SO-CALLED "RAPEFUGEES" WON'T BE LEAVING GERMANY OR EUROPE, ITS THE HARD BOYZ THAT WILL COMING + JIHADIN' GERMANY + EU. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2016-01-31 22:24 |
| #11 Can the "Palestinians" return home now? |
| Posted by: gorb 2016-01-31 12:12 |
| #10 Hahah! does she expect people are that stupid? Well, they elected her---didn't they? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-01-31 11:14 |
| #9 Yes. Next question. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2016-01-31 10:58 |
| #8 Hahah! does she expect people are that stupid? |
| Posted by: Lionel Thoth9784 2016-01-31 10:47 |
| #7 "But the war is over and we are home." |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2016-01-31 10:17 |
| #6 Yep. Just like all the Haitians that returned home after the Duvalier government was ousted. Not. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2016-01-31 08:40 |
| #5 Shes imported the war. Idiot. |
| Posted by: BrerRabbit 2016-01-31 08:01 |
| #4 Viel Glück mit diesem , Frau Bundeskanzlerin. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2016-01-31 07:25 |
| #3 And when they leave, all the lawless behavior and rapes will magically never have happened. |
| Posted by: gorb 2016-01-31 03:33 |
| #2 Fairly safe statement, as 'the war' will likely never end. At least there's been no indication of an ending since the beginning of the faith. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2016-01-31 03:03 |
| #1 Sorry honey, the only way these invaders are leaving is in pine boxes,in cattle cars or upwards through chimneys. |
| Posted by: Nguard 2016-01-31 02:52 |