Germany needs to send a message to the world that it's reaching the limit of its capacity to help Europe's flood of migrants, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said on Sunday, as he advocated restricting family reunions for Syrian refugees. Germany has become a magnet for people fleeing war and violence in the Middle East. It expects 800,000 to a million refugees and migrants to arrive this year, twice as many as in any prior year. "We need to send a clear message to the world: we are very much prepared to help, we've shown that we are, but our possibilities are also limited," Schaeuble said in an interview with ARD television. The pace and scale of the influx has put pressure on local communities and opened a rift among the ruling coalition parties over the best way to handle the crisis. The divisions re-opened over the weekend, after Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said in future Syrian refugees would receive modified refugee status and be barred from having family members join them, a statement he later retracted. The Social Democrats (SPD), who share power with Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives, rejected that proposal. Schaueble, however, spoke out in favor of the measure and said it was a proposal that the government was examining in detail. "I think it's a necessary decision and I'm very much in favor that we agree on this in the coalition," he said. Read more at Reutershttp://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/08/us-europe-migrants-germany-schaeuble-idUSKCN0SX0TX20151108#S04Sfbxep9KM0GqX.99 When the finance minister of the EU biggest economy says that the refugee crisis is putting a strain on Germany, maybe the deaf, dumb and blind, fascist Merkel should listen. Since Merkel likes to float around the EU countries and flash Germany's over-all economic condition in everyone's face, a hit to the German economy might wake her up. Unfortunately, it is the small communities that are being forced to pick up the slack for Merkel's fairy-godmother complex. It is good news that some members of the government want to curb the family reunification of Syrian refugees. If they don't do away with it, the added 'weight' on the country would amount to another 3.2 million more refugees, for just this year alone.
Why is it that people always have to wheel out the term "fascist" when talking about a person whose politics they disagree with. A lot can be said - either way - about Merkel's response to the flood of illegal migrants and refugees, but under no reasonable definition of the term is she a "fascist". And last time I saw she wasn't deaf, dumb and blind either.
The United States is not the only country with an illegal immigration problem. Germany will have to solve the problem in the same manner as the United States is coping with the problem.
Not if Germany actually wants to accomplish anything. The US's approach is outdated and a creeping up on becoming an epic fail.
Well, the current US Administration's approach seems to be to simply deny that illegal immigration is a problem: denial as policy.
So it seems, though it's not as if the illegal immigration issue has been addressed seriously for the lat 50 plus years either. A lot if lip service with very little action.
This is hilarious! The stupid, bleeding-heart liberal Merkel regime has obviously bitten off WAY more than they can chew. Now they're going to have to puke it back up! Wolfgang Schäuble is the Finance Minister, and for a long time he's been the only one of the CDU insiders who has any (*)(*)(*)(*)ing common sense at all. Merkel and her political klatsch have been so anxious to prove to the world that they're not Nazis that they have thrown open the borders of Germany to enormous numbers of invaders whom nobody is able to identify with any clarity at all. Most are headed for Germany because that's where the GOODY is -- lots of nice, juicy, plentiful German welfare, driven by a weird, seventy year-old sense of "guilt". . Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany, as "Mother Teresa". Too bad for Germany!
A step in the right direction is first admitting there's a problem with Illigal Aliens. American Democrats are yet to acknowledge the problem exist.
Did not Britain just proclaimed, Illegal Immigration is good for it and will bring an economic boom? I think, German finance minister knows not what he's talking about.
OMG! Where is the Syrian German Legal Defense and Educational Fund? They should be protesting in the streets.
It remains to be seen if packing in hundreds of thousands of beggars to feast on someone else's national socialist welfare "banquet" is going to result in an economic "boom" or not. If you've ever been to Europe you know how stupidly misconceived this whole idiotic idea was in the first place....
The economi boon will not be there. This is one of zero sum cases whereas for the newly mint European residents to get something, some of the old European residents have to give up something.
