Merkel’s about-face has nothing to do with her learning a lesson (or two) about her responsibility or duty toward the German people who are enraged because of her recklessly lax immigration policy. Nor does it have to do with any embarrassment at being publicly (and justifiably) thrashed by public outrage.
Merkel has completely turned her back on the German people rather than consider their interests and order a meticulous screening of refugees to try to keep out jihadis while helping the genuinely needy and innocent. Merkel’s only reason for her “extraordinary U-turn” is because – according to her interior ministry — she does not want to encourage migrants to take the risk of making the “perilous journey” to Europe.
As an elected official of the German people, Merkel remains iron-willed and resolute in her own policymaking rationale. She still has not demonstrated any willingness to take even the smallest amount of responsibility for the afflictions that have been visited upon German citizens due to her policies. She apparently does not care that in the first three months of 2016, migrants were linked to a staggering almost 70,000 attempted or actual crimes in Germany, or that as many as 2,000 men allegedly assaulted 1,200 German women on New Year’s Eve in Cologne, or that the Muslim migrant rape crisis has already spiraled out of control, with ongoing coverups.
“’DON’T COME HERE!’ Merkel migrant U-turn as Germany orders EU to SEND BACK boats to Africa”, by Nick Gutteridge, UK Express, November 7, 2016:
Her interior ministry said Brussels should send out patrols to intercept smugglers’ vessels and escort them back to north Africa, marking a massive shift in Germany’s official migration policy.
At the moment the EU and member states operate search and rescue operations to save refugees crossing the Mediterranean in often unseaworthy ships, who are then brought to the European mainland to claim asylum.
But now Germany, which has taken in well over a million migrants in the last year, has said that policy should scrapped because it is simply encouraging more people to make the perilous journey.
More than 4,000 asylum seekers are believed to have drowned at sea this year alone, more than the 3,771 deaths reported for the whole of 2015.
The spike has been caused in part by more and more migrants attempting the risky sea crossing from Libya to Italy after the safer passage between Turkey and Greece was shut off by an EU deal.
On top of that, beleaguered Mrs Merkel has come under huge political pressure over her enormously unpopular open door asylum policy, which has seen a number of humiliating electoral defeats inflicted on her party in regional elections.
There has been talk in political circles of her one-time allies ousting her as leader of the country unless she agrees to significantly harden her stance on refugees and win back the confidence of voters.
And today she appeared to respond to that clamour as the interior ministry announced a significant sea-change in its stance towards mass immigration to Europe.
In a statement the ministry said: “The elimination of the prospect of reaching the European coast could convince migrants to avoid embarking on the life-threatening and costly journey in the first place.”
It added that the EU should adopt a new policy of intercepting refugee boats at sea and returning them to Africa noting that this would “save migrants from the life-threatening journey” and “remove the basis for people-smuggling organisations.”
Under the plan people would be returned to Brussels-sanctioned refugee camps in Tunisia, Egypt and other peaceful north African states, but not to war-torn Libya from where most journeys across the Mediterranean are attempted.
It is thought that the EU could persuade African countries to accept migrants back with a similar deal to the one offered to Turkey earlier this year, under which Ankara secured billions of euros in aid and visa-free access to the Schengen zone for its 80 million citizens.
As with the EU-Turkey deal, refugees returned back across the Mediterranean would be able to apply for asylum from the North African camps and, if successful, would be allocated a member state under the migrant quota system.
However the proposal – which closely echoes Australia’s much-criticised border control system – was immediately blasted by opposition politicians in Germany.
Bernd Riexinger, head of the leftist opposition Die Linke party, branded the idea “a humanitarian scandal and a further step toward elimination of the right to asylum”.
He added: “The asylum check must take place in Germany, because the right to asylum also means the right to legal resources, that is, to lawyers, counseling centers, etc. The handling of refugees in Australia is absolutely unacceptable, and Germany and the EU must not be guided by it.”……

linnte says
She should be tried as a traitor to her Nation. She has rung the death nell to Europe and her cronies should be tried with her.
tom parry says
PHOTOSHOP PICTURE HER HAND IS SO SMALL. PLEASE KEEP THIS SITE CLEAN
Marisol Enrique says
I believe that is called ‘foreshortening’ — nothing photoshopped…
linnte says
Actually this is the opposite of foreshortening. It’s when the camera uses a telescopic lens and focuses on something in the background(her face) and everything in the immediate foreground looks smaller. But you are correct….it is not photoshoped.
Champ says
There you go again “tom” with more nonsensical remarks.
JIMJFOX says
“Tom” is a muslim troll- don’t fall for his taqiyya, people! ANYTHING to distract the kuffar.
gravenimage says
This image isn’t Photoshopped. What claptrap.
Marisol Enrique says
‘knell’
Denise A says
Agreed! There should be similar trials held in America as well!
Dacritic says
The first one to be put on trial would of course be Barry Obama. No wait, maybe George Dubya.
Nancy Assaf says
I can’t help but think that this woman is mentally ill.
Peggy says
Evil is not a mental illness.
Resist says
Piece of trash. Most despisable so called woman. Berk!!!
eduardo odraude says
And where will non-Muslim Germans find asylum, once Germany is no longer safe for them? This is a point Kilpatrick makes in his outstanding Politically Incorrect Guide to Jihad.
marblenecltr says
What will she do, issue Lufthansa tickets, First Class? Sorry I wrote that, it may give her an idea. She loves bad ideas.
Crusades Were Right! says
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again:
In 1990 West Germany did NOT annex East Germany…
…it was the other way around!
ECAW says
Merkel did not say this. Nor did her Interior Ministry. Nor did Germany.
It was merely Germany’s Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere. It is possible that he is signalling a change in tack from Merkel or it is possible that he is trying to oppose her. We don’t know.
That is why Jihad Watch does itself no favours relying so heavily, as it now does, on the Express, one of the trashiest of British tabloids.
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/11/06/send-new-migrants-back-africa-says-german-interior-minister/
gravenimage says
ECAW, the UK Express rightly notes that this announcement came from Merkel’s interior ministry. The may generally be a trashy tabloid, but I don’t see where they got anything wrong here.
ECAW says
No it didn’t come from Merkel’s Interior Ministry. It came from her Interior Minister as the breitbart article shows. I don’t know how things go in America but when the British Home Secretary says something I do not assume she is necessarily speaking for the Home Office unless specifically stated. Cabinet ministers are forever speaking for themselves, sometimes flying kites for the government and sometimes signalling an opposing view.
The Express upped the Minister speaking into the Ministry speaking into Merkel speaking into Germany speaking. This is what they do, distilling raw truth into half truth or untruth, all the better to provoke sensation or outrage.
Anne Smith says
It is not a trashy tabloid. It is tabloid in make up but it has some of the very best writers, the comment page is widely read and always very good and the reader’s letters page is one of the best in any newspaper.
The Express was the first paper to campaign for Brexit and has consistently written about and researched much of the problems caused by the EU.
Don’t knock it, it is not under the thumb of the ruling political party. We need the Express, if only to provide opposition to the Government which is not given by any other political party.
gravenimage says
Thanks for the background, Anne.
Only Words says
Thats just words.THey will do nothing.Northafrica will take them only for some million euros…
Here you can see some ships:
http://www.marinetraffic.com/de/ais/home/centerx:13/centery:33/zoom:6
Ernie says
Some million Euros PER CAPITA ?
billybob says
“But now Germany, which has taken in well over a million migrants in the last year, has said that policy should scrapped because it is simply encouraging more people to make the perilous journey.”
Gee – who could have foreseen that?
Angemon says
Huh, DUUUUUUH!!!!! That should have been obvious from the get-go. I, and countless others, have been saying exactly just that: if you take them in, they’ll keep coming. If you turn them back, they’ll stop coming because the price and risk are not worth the reward.
j_not_a says
What I don’t understand is why Italy is not under fire for patrolling the Mediterranean so close to Libya’s coast and plucking all these muzlum misfits off their rafts and towing them all back to Italy, by the thousands pretty much every day. How and when it THIS going to be stopped?
gravenimage says
Yes–this is crazy.
Peggy says
When they elect another Pope maybe.
Italy has become a taxi service for them.
Mark A says
The photo accompanying the article could be construed as Angela Merkel giving the Nazi salute.
Her attitude over the last year or so does have a ring of “Heil Merkel” about it.
Warmac9999 says
Europe is collapsing under the weight of the barbarian ideology called Islam. This supposed return idea is a sham.
billybob says
German crews build barrier higher than Berlin Wall to separate town from refugee wave
A wall that will tower more than 12 feet is being built in Munich after locals raised fears young refugees would be moving into the area.
The barrier – which is higher than the Berlin Wall – is being built in Neuperlach Süd to separate the current community from the 160 unaccompanied young migrants moving to a nearby shelter.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/11/07/german-crews-build-barrier-higher-than-berlin-wall-to-separate-town-from-refugee-wave.html
Get this…
“Concerns also have been raised that some asylum seekers who escaped their war-torn countries were returning to their homes for a holiday, despite claiming they needed to flee persecution.”
gravenimage says
Merkel orders EU to turn back boats full of Muslim migrants
…………………,
Whatever her ostensible reasons are, I’m glad to see it.
Sam says
Well we will have Hillary tomorrow as our president. She will make Merkel look like an angel. Hey we deserve what we elect as our rulers. We have elected Obama twice and now Hillary so we do not have any ground to be able to criticize Merkel or any other crazy European leader who is subjecting his people to Islam.
God I hope I am wrong about Hillary being president! We’ll see tomorrow.
davej says
Good idea, about a decade too late.
“Right to asylum”? For those who seek to overthrow your society?
Germany will awake when the sword is about half an inch from it’s neck.
JawsV says
I so detest Frau Merkel. She’s a blithering idiot.
Michael Laudahn says
The crazy thing is that a conventional politician would have less blood on his hands than these ‘humanistic’ politicians: He would have ‘nipped her in the bud’, ie opened fire on the first boats Then they would have comprehended the message and stopped it, so no more drownings in the thousands. And we haven’t even started to discuss the consequences of the ongoing arrivals for the invaded countries and their populations due to this failed ‘humanistic’ policy.
Pumbar says
I misread the headline as “Merkel turning back *goats* full of muslims”. I must be starting to go native, very disturbing.
gravenimage says
Poor goats!
linnte says
GI, hahahahhahahah haha!
Mach1Duck says
Like the rest of our current crop of politicians, they are following their own agenda, not those of the people they govern…time for a change.
Matthieu Baudin says
“… But now Germany, which has taken in well over a million migrants in the last year, has said that policy should scrapped because it is simply encouraging more people to make the perilous journey…”
Interesting, that the Frau Fuhrer has discovered, so late in the piece, that Europe has been outwitted by a large scale People Smuggling Scam, that has cost the lives of many hundreds or even thousands of gullible risk taking ‘would be’ immigrants. Only the Australian authorities seem to have identified the problem early on and responded by introducing effective measures to stem the flow of boat people, effectively saving their lives.
Dom107 says
Merkel has a record of saying one thing and then later saying something 180 degrees opposite. She is clearly unfit for government and may be trying to rescue her prospects in the 2017 election. The German people must not be fooled by this and should not vote for her or her party which is complicit in this foolishness.
They shouldn’t vote for any other party which has given sympathy or support to her or her party. There should no money paid to African or other countries for taking their illegal emigrants back. This whole business must be the greatest scam and blackmail ever perpetrated on European governments with billions changing hands to criminal people smugglers and corrupt governments. Only naïve and /or stupid people could have fallen for it and still we have fools like Riexinger spouting rubbish about political asylum which has so obviously been massively abused.
The whole bunch of them must be rejected and the AFD party elected. This leftist/liberal agenda has been totally discredited as it has in the UK where the Labour and liberal parties will probably be wiped out at the next election. Luckily they are not in government now.
Bristow says
Australia indeed has a policy of turning back the boats and this has put a complete stop to illegal immigration. Even the Labor party leader has agreed to this policy. But it is all done on the pretense of saving migrants/asylum seekers from the dangerous boat journey. In reality (but this is never stated) turning back the boats is done to stop illegal immigration and appease the majority of the Australian public who are against open borders.
gravenimage says
Bravo, Australia!
Peggy says
Now if only they could stop increasing the numbers coming in the legal way.
Abbott was going to increase numbers but only the non Muslims were going to be accepted. You saw how long he lasted after that.
Then this Turdbull took over and the numbers have increased and they are all Muslim.
Whichever way you look at it we are going to be swamped (to use Pauline Hanson’s words).
gravenimage says
What Australia is doing is *hardly* perfect, Peggy–but it is better than what is happening in many other Western nations.
Elizabeth says
What is she saying now? She usually tells everyone: ‘U vill haf it und U vill like it.’ She is a drongo!!
Cretius says
Ah, another German leader with a raised right arm. Europe needs to send them all back to North Africa to be processed there. The Islamic invasion of mostly single men of military age is being played down as are most of the rapes and other crimes committed by these ‘refugees’. Even the animals are not safe! LOL
Florida Jim says
Better late than never. Unwanted migration is illegal everywhere do not fall prey to the myth.Isn’t it astounding no one ever wants to go the Mideast or any Muslim nation, why is that?
JIMJFOX says
Her interior ministry said Brussels should send out patrols to intercept smugglers’ vessels and escort them back to north Africa, marking a massive shift in Germany’s official migration policy.
Same ‘reason’ given by Australia for a decade now; drownings, people smugglers… the truth-
WE DON’T WANT YOU!- but that would be ‘Islamophobic’, wouldn’t it?
Therefore, play them at their own games… ‘War is deceit’ as Mo said. Lie to them. Burn their boats.
Reject them ALL.
Jay Boo says
No need to burn their boats. The Muslim pipeline is well informed despite what NPR might claim. NPR interviewed a Muslim who claimed very emphatically the ridiculous notion that if the EU stopped allowing Muslim migrants and closed its borders that it would be the worst decision and the Muslims would still flood at the borders in record numbers unabated in the least and cause a human catastrophe as they stack up.
Once the word gets out that no one is ever going to get into the EU illegally, the flow would be a mere trickle.
John says
We need to end this racist, hateful, bigoted intolerance that’s permeating Europe. The only way to do it is to keep these racist, hateful, bigoted and intolerant Muslims out of our once-lovely Europe.
Schrödinger says
It would be good to say better late than never, Frau Merkel.
However the muslim is all amongst us. And, thanks to the likes of you, there are no gates.
Charli Main says
Merkel has done the math. She does not need anymore ” refugees” coming into Europe to fulfill her objective of destroying European culture and civilization.
She knows that the Muslims, she has already allowed into Germany, will start breeding like rats, giving her all the soldiers of Allah she needs to do the job.
John A. Marre says
Obama’s going to be mad at here for not following orders!
Peggy says
“More than 4,000 asylum seekers are believed to have drowned at sea this year alone, more than the 3,771 deaths reported for the whole of 2015.”
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Are these the Christians who were thrown overboard?
Charli Main says
Excellent point and very true.
Lizzie says
What angers me about Merkel is that in a year or so her migrants will get EU passports and will leave Germany to travel all over Europe. They are mostly low grade,unskilled and uneducated. Many speak English as a second language and will be entitled to settle here. There is NOTHING we can do about it as long as we remain in the EU.
Her generosity was always with this in mind knowing Germany would not pay the ultimate price.
The woman is a race traitor and gross hypocrite.