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Germany: Merkel says she would make ‘essentially the same decisions’ today as she did during 2015 migrant influx

Aug 31, 2020 11:00 am By Robert Spencer

Roughly 2,016,241 migrants entered Germany in 2015, many with the conviction that they had a model of society and governance that was superior to the German one, and that they would eventually replace the one with the other. But any concern about that, or about shocking levels of crime among migrants, indicating that many have no respect whatsoever for German law, is “racist” and “Islamophobic,” and thus to be dismissed out of hand.

“Merkel reveals she has no regrets over 2015 migrant influx, claims she would let 1 million into Germany again,” RT, August 28, 2020:

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has doubled down on her controversial open borders immigration policy, saying she would make “essentially the same decisions” if presented with similar circumstances to the 2015 migrant crisis.

Merkel was asked about the policy during her annual summer press conference in Berlin on Friday. “When people are standing at the German-Austrian border or the Hungarian-Austrian border, they have to be treated like human beings,” the German leader told journalists.

The politician added that European nations will face similar tough decisions for many years to come. “The subject of migration … is not finished. It will be a constant theme for the 21st century,” she said.

There were roughly one million first-time asylum applications in Germany between 2015 and 2016 – one of the critical moments of Merkel’s 15-year tenure as chancellor of the European nation.

Despite an initial wave of popular support among the German people, the reality of Merkel’s immigration policy decision quickly gave way to skepticism and, later, controversy and a backlash, after a slew of high-profile incidents involving migrants, including numerous sexual assaults during the 2015-16 New Year’s Eve celebrations….

Merkel also made a deal with Turkey, promising visa-free travel in Europe for Turkish citizens in exchange for Turkey stemming the tide of migration through its borders. This afforded Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan new leverage in negotiations with Brussels in the years to come, including in 2020, when he threatened to open the refugee floodgates if NATO did not back Turkish operations in Syria.

In 2019, some 1,345,943 foreigners migrated to Germany, compared with roughly 2,016,241 in 2015….

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  1. mortimer says

    Aug 31, 2020 at 11:04 am

    Merkel is a real globalist fanatic and possibly she is experiencing bipolar disorder. One of the chief symptoms of BPD is the urge to go on spending sprees.

    The German state has a loose nut behind the wheel. Merkel has emptied the welfare coffers of all the German states.

    • nicu says

      Aug 31, 2020 at 11:42 am

      She is a hardcore commie paid by Soros and the Saudis it seems :(( German media ” celebrate ” 5 years of …. yes .. what ? Terror and Crimes ! They want to replace us with them – they stream in since 2015 and bring not only Corona !

      German girls get prostituted to ” young ” Muslim men !!!

      http://www.pi-news.net/2018/01/die-kuppler-von-kandel/

    • Jesper says

      Aug 31, 2020 at 2:07 pm

      Merkel is the greatest threat to Germany since Hitler. And will succeed with what Hitler wasn’t able to: making Germany judenfrei.

    • william carr says

      Sep 1, 2020 at 7:07 am

      The last time I heard at least 50% of those refused asylum disappeared into to undergrowth AKA the Moose Limb community. There is also Nigerian mafia running human trafficking. mainly young girls for prostitution, and drugs in Germany and probably in neighbouring EU countries as well. It is estimated that the Germans will have to raise the retirement age to pay for the social welfare of these parasites who in the main do not work and why should they when they get free support from the German tax payer.
      Why this stupid woman remain sin office is beyond comprehension, the virgin blood of hundreds if not thousands of girls is on her hands

      • gravenimage says

        Sep 1, 2020 at 9:37 pm

        That those refused asylum are not deported is insanity.

    • Roger Woodhouse says

      Sep 1, 2020 at 10:11 am

      Well she would say that wouldnt she?
      Never known a politician admit they got it wrong.

    • Rufolino says

      Sep 1, 2020 at 10:59 am

      I would like to know what actual contact Merkel has with Islamic migrants in her day to day life ?

      I thought so. None. She inhabits a protected bubble. It doesn’t concern her.

      All she does is inflict this increasing problem on everyone else.

  2. nicu says

    Aug 31, 2020 at 11:48 am

    She is a shame for every person with a mental illness — they don’t destroy other lives BY WILL – mostly only themselves !

    • andra says

      Aug 31, 2020 at 12:54 pm

      I do not believe that she is mentally ill – just as little as the jihadists are. But you are right: She is a shame for every person, with or without a mental illness.

  3. Sylvia Drummond says

    Aug 31, 2020 at 12:02 pm

    Why should one person be able to bring millions of savages into a country? Do the germans not have a cabinet where they can discuss the pros and cons of a decision? It is terrfying to think that an emotional decision has destroyed the lives of so many people, brought so much crime and is eating at the fabric of their society with no opposition.

    • Ray Jarman says

      Aug 31, 2020 at 12:37 pm

      +1 Sylvia,

      Excellent question. Every German realizes that when they vote for any Christian Democratic Union (CDU) candidate, it is a vote for Merkel. It is amazing to me that people would vote to destroy themselves but they must be drinking something that causes masochism and a will to self destroy. Redundant, I know.

      • gravenimage says

        Aug 31, 2020 at 4:57 pm

        Actually, a majority of Germans voted for a candidate other than Merkel in the last election. Unfortunately, the opposition vote was badly splintered.

    • Jedothek says

      Aug 31, 2020 at 12:50 pm

      You refer to “an emotional decision,” but I think a genuine clue to her actions is to be found in the word “globalist” in the post by mortimer above. If an intelligent leader seems not to be acting in the best interests of her country, she probably has another aim in mind.

    • andra says

      Aug 31, 2020 at 12:53 pm

      Merkel´s decision to traffic these people into Germany has never been an emotional decision. The Merkel government has been working for globalism for a long time.
      And by the way there is some opposition. But whatever you say against the replacement politics you are called racist, islamophobe, nazi, modernism-looser, Reichsbürger, etc. And on top you get killed socially and financially.

  4. Michael Avery says

    Aug 31, 2020 at 12:58 pm

    Well, only have that number were the “Refugees” but I take your point.
    https://www.romania-insider.com/most-immigrants-germany-romania

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 31, 2020 at 5:05 pm

      Most of the huge influx of “refugees” in 2015 were Muslim, not Romanian.

  5. janicevanguilder says

    Aug 31, 2020 at 1:06 pm

    Merkel’s being in charge in Germany is equivalent to George Soros as president of the U.S. – both with major commitments to destroy the nation.

  6. Westman says

    Aug 31, 2020 at 1:19 pm

    Merkel’s statements will be heard as, “We have good welfare benefits and room for a million more..” The human smugglers must be rubbing their hands with glee, buying decrepit boats and cheap life preservers.

    1/4 of “Germans” under 18 have a foreign-born parent. Merkel seems to be continuing the Russian punishment of Germans for WWII by destroying any hope of a cohesive society – similar to the ancient practice of salting the fields of the vanquished – and they are allowing her to do it!

    The EU Masters must be delighted. Tourists previously went to Germany to see the past. Eventually, Germany’s tourist trade will consist of visitors from other EU states and Muslim nations. Other traffic will be related to business.

    The Angela Of Economic Death has struck a mighty blow to Germany and its dependent, the EU.

  7. tony says

    Aug 31, 2020 at 2:03 pm

    Merkel is the second Hitler (there is even conspiracy theory about her being his descendant) She caused big chaos in all Europe, almost like him – near civil wars, no go zones, attacking the Christians and Jews, dhimmitude of native Europeans. I hope one day she will be prosecuted for treason.

    • James Mackenzie says

      Aug 31, 2020 at 2:29 pm

      Hitler was not in fact a friend o Islam, tho cuckservatives are desperate to believe that.

      https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/7ckfe5/how_were_muslims_treated_in_nazi_germany_what_was/

      • gravenimage says

        Aug 31, 2020 at 5:15 pm

        Well, this is just hilarious. Not only is Reddit not a reliable source, but this single post (which is actually quite accurate in this one case) hardly supports James Mackenzie’s claim that Hitler was no friend to Islam.

        In fact, Hitler openly admired Islam, and bemoaned the fact that Islam had not conquered Europe, because he believed that if it had that Germans, as the supposed master race, would have dominated the continent.

        Hitler also actively courted the Muslim world, and was a special ally of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. There were also more than one Muslim SS unit set up in the Balkans.

        He did not, of course, admire all Muslims, many of whom, like the Arabs, he believed to be racially inferior to “Aryans”–but that is another matter.

        How does knowing this history make one a “cuckservative”? Of course, James Mackenzie does not say.

        • Sun says

          Sep 1, 2020 at 2:44 pm

          +1

      • Westman says

        Aug 31, 2020 at 5:40 pm

        Your reference in fact points out that Hitler did admire Arab Islam yet treated other Muslims, Bosnia, etc, differently. If you read the references on Jihad Watch to Hitler’s admiration of Islam you would quickly understand that they are contextual to arab Muslims.

        You might also realize that the central factor in Hitler’s admiration for Islam was the common hatred and desire to exterminate Jews.

      • Dave from San Antonio says

        Aug 31, 2020 at 8:15 pm

        ‘Reddit’? Be serious. Reddit is a place where leftists go to be consoled by other libs when they get confronted with facts and don’t have any answers…not that Reddit can help with facts or anything. Libs just go there to stroke each other’s feelings.

    • andra says

      Sep 1, 2020 at 12:08 am

      The no-go-areas in Sweden, France or GB do not exist because of Merkel. They have been there much earlier. The GB Muslim immigration was planned and run by Tony Blair. The Muslim problem in France was caused by de Gaulles. And Sweden decided way back in the 70ies to become a multicultural society, as well as the Netherlands.
      Merkel only took over in the invasion politics much later than that. She is only the end of the chaos, not the beginning.

      • gravenimage says

        Sep 1, 2020 at 12:10 am

        The whole of the West is in trouble.

      • James Lincoln says

        Sep 1, 2020 at 10:57 am

        andra,

        I get your point, but Angela Merkel did pour kerosene on the fire…

        • andra says

          Sep 1, 2020 at 11:51 am

          But she is not working alone. In the EU she could not decide anything on her own. Most of the other heads of government agree with her. They just do not have interest in leading from the front. Because that way the rest of EU can point on Germany, so that Germany hast to wear sackcloth and ashes for the next 100 years.

  8. Geoff says

    Aug 31, 2020 at 2:31 pm

    In other news, the Reichstag in Berlin was stormed again, only this time the Nazis were doing the storming

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8679211/Fury-Germany-far-right-protesters-storm-parliament-building.html

    • andra says

      Sep 1, 2020 at 3:52 pm

      The article is not really sticking to the truth.

  9. gravenimage says

    Aug 31, 2020 at 4:55 pm

    Germany: Merkel says she would make ‘essentially the same decisions’ today as she did during 2015 migrant influx
    ………………

    Vote her out!

  10. tim gallagher says

    Aug 31, 2020 at 6:18 pm

    Incapable of learning, apparently. What an idiot. I keep wondering, what’s in it for sellout merchants like Merkel and other globalists like her? Don’t they see the damage they are doing to their countries? Or is it that they don’t give a damn about destroying the quality of life for the average citizen of their countries? Are they being paid kickbacks for their traitorous policies. I suppose these fools get to have that nice, warm feeling that people who carry out idiotic, virtue signalling policies, where they let barbaric scum into their country, seem to enjoy having. As gravenimage points out , just up above, in a democracy, it really is up to the citizens to vote traitors like Merkel out of office. Get rid of her and her fellow sellout merchants or Germany will be completely wrecked.

  11. James Lincoln says

    Aug 31, 2020 at 8:45 pm

    An article from Politico 27 August 2017:

    “That some countries refuse to accept any refugees is not on,” she said, referring to Central European states including Poland and Hungary that have refused to take migrants. “That contradicts the spirit of Europe. We’ll overcome that. It will take time and patience but we will succeed.”

    I don’t think so, Angela. Poland and Hungary stood up to the Merkel madness – and refused muslim migrants.

    And if these muslim migrants were so “wonderful”, why did she want to spread them around the other EU member states?

    https://www.politico.eu/article/angela-merkel-defends-open-border-migration-refugee-policy-germany/

  12. Walter Sieruk says

    Aug 31, 2020 at 9:20 pm

    By Merkel making that statement she is exposing that she as a politician is such an incompetent idiot that she can’t even learn from past mistakes.

    • andra says

      Sep 1, 2020 at 12:11 am

      She does not see it as a mistake, as invading Germany by Muslims has been the plan for decades and she is finishing the job.

  13. OTTER says

    Aug 31, 2020 at 9:35 pm

    For evolutionary reasons, when in power, many women cannot recognise threats from hostile male outsiders. She is just being a woman. If you vote women to power and entrust the affairs of the state to them, this is what you get. Ever notice any women in power in the Chinese Communist Party? The West is dying because it disastrously decided to treat men and women equally, overlooking their fundamental differences. The white West will die of a lack of children and Islam will take over. Sorry, it’s true much as I am revolted by the thought.

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 31, 2020 at 9:56 pm

      What claptrap. There are many men in power now who are also clueless about the threat of Islam and are welcoming in hordes of ravening Muslims.

      Then, there were tough female leaders like Margaret Thatcher and Golda Meir. Of course, OTTER cannot explain them. I guess that women like Pamela Geller don’t exist, either.

      And if OTTER *really* wants to ensure that women won’t be treated equally, he should just convert to Islam now.

    • andra says

      Sep 1, 2020 at 12:10 am

      And Canada, Netherlands and France are doing great because they have voted for Trudeau, Rutte and Macron? What a nonsense. But you just react as the Lefties want you to react: they try to divide men and women so that they can rule without any problems.

      • gravenimage says

        Sep 1, 2020 at 12:15 am

        Germany is not the only place in trouble, certainly.

  14. gary fouse says

    Aug 31, 2020 at 11:07 pm

    This is like Hitler saying in April 1945 that if he had it to do all over again, he would invade Russia.

    Dope.

  15. Peter WF says

    Sep 1, 2020 at 3:16 am

    What would you expect her to say? Nothing new here.

  16. Stephen O'mara says

    Sep 1, 2020 at 7:31 am

    Germany experiences death by Islam, NO known cure.

  17. j c a reid says

    Sep 1, 2020 at 7:55 am

    She said back in 2017 to the German People, this ‘experiment’ had failed catastrophically. Yet, she persisted with it. She is in denial & she & the CDU should be removed from Power for this self-inflicted mess. On other web sites I have passed comment, that I am surprised there has been no Mass Rioting by Local Populaces & assassination attempts on various European “Leaders” for this deliberate & cynical ploy to eradicate their own people.

  18. Seeking Deliverance says

    Sep 1, 2020 at 9:36 am

    Much of the western world is in deep peril yet any who identifies such finds themselves disenfranchised and cancelled. Fascism has swept through the West and few countries have weathered this Fascist storm.

  19. Raja says

    Sep 1, 2020 at 11:43 am

    Though this lady looks like a clown she seems to be very venomous. The Germans are still ashamed of their Nazi past but don’t seem to be ashamed of this lady who is supposed to be a daughter of a church minister. The churches have deviated from the truth and their mission. They don’t even know how evil Islam and Left is. If you don’t know your enemy/enemies you probably lost the will to live. The West doesn’t have the will power to live leave alone enjoying life. For the West, good life is being self centered, not wanting babies and being prepared for self abasement. Can anything be more gloomy than this for the West?

  20. OLD GUY says

    Sep 1, 2020 at 3:40 pm

    Take a serious look at this women, she can’t be playing with a full deck. She still has not recognized the islamic/muslim migration invasion for what it is, A takeover of your country and society.

  21. infidel says

    Sep 2, 2020 at 7:36 am

    Shameless crazy lunatic lady… Take pride and pleasure in destroying her own land and betraying her own people to the wolves of Jehaad. We have one such mad lady called Mamta Banjerjee who is the CM of the Eastern state of West Bengal which borders Jehaadi Bangladesh and this mad lady has now made her state into a paradise for mad Jehaadis of all hue and color.. Why can;t these two just pass away naturally

  22. Jenny H says

    Sep 5, 2020 at 4:06 am

    Angela Merkel and the other Muslim-welcoming European leaders don’t have to personally face the consequences of their decisions. I don’t know where they all live, but they probably live in homes supplied by the State, with security guards. They don’t have to be bashed or raped by some violent migrant, compete with them for low income housing and be intimidated into dyeing their blond hair brown, not being able to dress in their previously normal way, actively discouraged from serving their traditional foods and being afraid to express their opinions

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