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| quote: | Originally posted by Vector A
Neither the quasi-fascist demagoguery of someone like Trump or "let's declare every olive-skinned, dark-haired person who doesn't speak any recognizably European language other than rudimentary English to be a 'refugee'" seem like very reasonable solutions to me. |
I don't think that's Merkel's stance towards refugees.
When she made that Palestinian girl cry, she explicitly said the country couldn't just welcome everyone and would have to send some people back. When refugees arrived en masse, Germany actually did the most sensible thing: According to Schengen rules, they couldn't just close the borders, so the best they could do was deal with the refugees after they arrived. It was the right thing to do because people were risking their lives in the Mediterranean, and there was little Greece, Libya, Turkey, and Italy could do to stop the humanitarian crisis. Stopping people from going would be just as troublesome.
Abbott, Australia's former prime minister, tried to "stop the boats" (which you can argue is a way to deal with the problem). In a way, boats stopped arriving, but that's because the Aussie taxpayer was already footing the bill paying for offshore asylum processing centres re-opened during the last Labour government, and would-be refugees were being sent there. Could Europe do something on a similar scale? Unlikely as it's too fragmented. Would it be worth trying if it could? You'll probably agree detaining hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers is just infeasible, so this is probably another dead-end.
In short, Germany isn't just welcoming everyone with open arms. It's just trying to deal with the situation in the most realistic possible way.
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