Post by Jack
Well this is odd, Germany has just closed its borders to immigration for urgent security reasons. Imagine that? I thought they needed low cost labor and this would boost their economy?
MSN REPORTS Hours Ago: In a shocking development in the European migrant crisis, Germany is immediately introducing border controls in the south of the country, Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière announced on Sunday. The government of Chancellor Angela Merkel claimed “urgent security reasons.”
The border controls are supposed to curb the influx of migrants. Currently, tens of thousands of refugees per day find their way to Germany, many of them from civil-war-torn Syria.
The announcement is in stark contradiction to the principle of open borders, to which most EU member states, including Germany, have committed. Apparently Germany wants to increase the pressure on the European Union to finally find an EU-wide solution to the refugee crisis.
The decision marks a surprising turnaround in Germany’s attitude toward the European refugee crisis.
Chancellor Angela Merkel had recently followed a policy of open borders and taken a moral leadership role in the refugee crisis. For example, she had announced Germany’s intention to take up considerably more refugees and provided for six billion euros in emergency aid.
Funny how things can change.
I can’t see an end to this or a solution to other related problems any time soon. There will be no real workable solution to the refugee problem as long as the world is unwilling to work together to stamp out radical Islam…the one entity that is most responsible.
If Germany started to freak out over a 20 or 30k refugees, think how they would feel if they were invaded by 15 million, who didn’t bother to ask permission, they just sneaked in.
I understand in one instance male refugees were saying that women in the country should cover themselves. Another report indicated that large numbers of young males were entering the country together raising concerns that they were jihadists.
Also read over the weekend that Iran just found a big uranium deposit…are we surprised? No! They don’t need to rely on imports to weaponize. The Iran deal just got stupider.
Re securing borders…Israel has secured theirs on three fronts
with fencing…they just got it done. All we do is yammer on.