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As winter looms, Germany struggles to find homes for refugees
Reuters ^ | October 15, 2015

Posted on 10/18/2015 4:37:13 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

t a sprawling camp in the German town of Celle, refugees wearing thick sweaters sit around a heater smoking cigarettes as rain beats down on the cramped white tent that has become their home. Some of them are ill and worried it will snow.

"The weather is so cold that I can't even leave the tent," said Taher, a 25-year-old Syrian farmer. Sitting on his camp bed surrounded by wet washing that hangs limply from tent poles, he reaches for a box of cough medicine.

With the approach of winter, authorities are scrambling to find warm places to stay for the thousands of refugees streaming into Germany every day. In desperation, they have turned to sports halls, youth hostels and empty office buildings.

But as these options dry up, tent cities have become the fall-back plan: despite falling temperatures, a survey by German newspaper Die Welt showed at least 42,000 refugees were still living in tents.

The challenge of finding adequate housing is turning into one of the biggest tests for the government of Angela Merkel, who has stuck doggedly to her mantra "Wir schaffen das" ("we can do this") in the face of rising public scepticism.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


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1 posted on 10/18/2015 4:37:13 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

They have homes back where they came from

National suicide, Germans


2 posted on 10/18/2015 4:38:33 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (Eliminate "Sanctuary Cities" and "birthright citizenship" and other immigration scams)
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To: MinorityRepublican
"The weather is so cold that I can't even leave the tent," said Taher, a 25-year-old Syrian farmer.

It's frickin' mid-October.

Someone like this has nothing to offer a modern society. All he can do it mess things up. Which is basically the plan.

3 posted on 10/18/2015 4:39:31 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (I've switched. Trump is my #1. He understands how to get things done. Cruz can be VP.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

A bunch of sand fleas invade a snow belt. Morons.


4 posted on 10/18/2015 4:41:02 PM PDT by CodeToad (Stupid kills, but not nearly enough!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Hordes of dependent wards of the state.


5 posted on 10/18/2015 4:41:21 PM PDT by headstamp 2
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To: ClearCase_guy
Hey TAHER....why the HELL did you COME to Europe if you KNEW it was so damned COLD??? Oh, the Caliphate...yes, of course.

INVASION ANGELA.....INVASION....GOODBYE GERMANY!!!

6 posted on 10/18/2015 4:41:22 PM PDT by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: A_Former_Democrat

Wait until the backlash comes. It won’t be pretty.


7 posted on 10/18/2015 4:41:51 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: MinorityRepublican

I hear Syria is warm.....and plenty of room.


8 posted on 10/18/2015 4:42:00 PM PDT by Toddsterpatriot ("Telling the government to lower trade barriers to zero...is government interference" central_va)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Maybe send the invaders on a winter invasion of Russia?


9 posted on 10/18/2015 4:42:08 PM PDT by rigelkentaurus
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To: MinorityRepublican

Ship them back to their islamo fecalholes where they can prey on on allah converts in peace. Stupid and moronic morons.


10 posted on 10/18/2015 4:42:26 PM PDT by soycd
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To: MinorityRepublican

They could always go back to Syria. In fact, most Europeans would prefer it if they did.

The 70% that aren’t Syrian can go back to Pakistan, the Congo, or wherever they are from. Funny how they sold this exodus as people escaping slaughter, yet most are from countries that don’t even qualify for asylum. These are purely economic refugees.


11 posted on 10/18/2015 4:43:42 PM PDT by Gunpowder green
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To: MinorityRepublican

Your decision

Own it Deutschland!


12 posted on 10/18/2015 4:46:21 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Don't mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance, or my kindness for weakness)
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To: MinorityRepublican

I hope the Germans put in an order for the Coldest Winter in 500 years


13 posted on 10/18/2015 4:46:34 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: MinorityRepublican

Not a problem. They’re kicking out people who’ve lived in those facilities for over ten years. Have to give them over to those “immigrants” so they don’t suffer. As for the German’s who’ve live there, tuff noogies.


14 posted on 10/18/2015 4:46:34 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: MinorityRepublican

There is lots of room for them in Syria!


15 posted on 10/18/2015 4:48:46 PM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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PPPPPPP

This is déjà vu of California, illegals and the water shortage.

Are German socialists trying to win votes from illegals like California socialists allegedly are?

16 posted on 10/18/2015 4:50:04 PM PDT by Amendment10
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The challenge of finding adequate housing is turning into one of the biggest tests for the government of Angela Merkel.

Finding adequate housing? No problem. All they need to do, is order the German people to move out of their homes, so the muzzies can move in. Problem solved. /s

17 posted on 10/18/2015 4:51:22 PM PDT by Mark17 (Heaven, where the only thing there that's been made by man are the scars in the hands of Jesus)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Alberta is colder than Germany, but it is still warm enough to sleep outside with a minimal preparation.


18 posted on 10/18/2015 4:53:21 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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Don’t care


19 posted on 10/18/2015 4:54:53 PM PDT by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Our dimwit-in-chief wants to take in 250,000 of them! Coming soon to a neighborhood near you!

Why can’t we stop this?


20 posted on 10/18/2015 4:55:23 PM PDT by Gunpowder green
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