Germany: No more refugees.....'We're Under Water'. (
Spiegel).
Mohammed sleeps on a mattress in the auditorium of a home for
children and youth located not far from the Nuremberg city center. The
facility is operated by the Rumelsberger Diakonie, the local chapter of
Germany's nationwide Protestant charity operation. Werner Pfingstgraef,
who is responsible for unaccompanied minors at the facility, says: "
If I
compare the present situation with the floods
(of 2013), then you have to say, we're under water."
Every one of his
employees, he says, is running "like they were on a hamster wheel."
Last year, the Bavarian Social Affairs Ministry forecast that 500 to
600 unaccompanied minors would arrive. But 3,400 came, says
Pfingstgraef. He estimates that some 14,000 are currently in Bavaria.
Still, despite the difficulties of the present situation, he warns
against lowering standards in response. "
If we aren't successful in
getting these young people a school certificate and stabilizing them, we
will pay for it bitterly one day."
It's everywhere, this anger with Merkel -- in the conference hall in
Schkeuditz on Wednesday evening, for example. It's the kind of regional
conference that Merkel likes to set up so as to calm ruffled party
feathers.
But this time, it is more than just ruffled feathers. This
time, it is an open revolt.
It's not just the party rank and file who join the debate, but also
regional officials, mayors and former state parliamentarians.
They say
that Merkel opened the gates to the refugees and that she should finally
take steps to limit the inflow. One says: "In my opinion, you have
failed."
Merkel is looking increasingly isolated. Government sources say she has
made refugee policy her personal concern, and now she is being left to
deal with it on her own. Last week, Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière
confided in his Luxembourg counterpart, telling him that
Merkel did not
have a plan, only "cold feet."
Even if the chancellor remains convinced that Germany can handle the
influx of refugees, when it comes to unaccompanied minors, Germany is
failing in many areas. And money isn't even the problem.
There are no
buildings that satisfy the criteria established by the youth welfare
office. There are insufficient personnel with backgrounds in education
because too few students have pursued degrees in the subjects needed.
Merkel's critics also know that there are no simple solutions. But
that's not their focus.
They want to send a "message to the global
public" that even a rich county like Germany can't accept an unlimited
number of people, as Governor Horst Seehofer, who is the head of the
Christian Social Union (CSU), the Bavarian sister party to Merkel's CDU,
puts it.
But the message is also intended for domestic consumption.
Many
conservative lawmakers would like to see the reintroduction of border
controls and want people who have no chance of receiving asylum to be
blocked from entering Germany at the border. They want the state to
demonstrate that it hasn't completely lost control of who enters the
country.
Merkel believes that this is the wrong approach. In the meeting with
parliamentary conservatives, she repeated her conviction that securing
borders wouldn't work on a national level. Only on the European level.
CDU domestic policy specialist Armin Schuster contradicted the
chancellor. "I am a federal police officer," he began. "Ms. Chancellor,
have faith. The federal police force can handle it."
Others had the same message. Clemens Binninger, a member of
parliament from the state of Baden-Württemberg, said: "
If you are of the
opinion that we can't control and reject, then I am of a different
opinion." Hans-Peter Uhl, a conservative from Bavaria, predicted the end
of Merkel's political career if she doesn't change her approach: "
When
the people realize that the government cannot or will not protect them,
then the people will elect a different government."
Merkel's confidants in the Chancellery had thought that they had the
conflict at least temporarily under control.
On Monday morning, Merkel
spoke with CSU head Horst Seehofer on the phone and told him that she
too would begin openly supporting the idea of creating so-called
"transit zones," similar to immigration facilities found at
international airports along Germany's borders.
The zones would be for
refugees who are ineligible for refugee status and would enable them to
be sent back home immediately. CSU lawmakers, with the support of German
Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière, had been demanding the
establishment of such zones for the previous two weeks.
Hmmm.....As i warned right away at the start Extreme right will rise in Europe.Read the full story
here.
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