Click here: to donate by Credit Card
Or here: to donate by PayPal
Or by mail to: Free Republic, LLC - PO Box 9771 - Fresno, CA 93794
Thank you very much and God bless you.
Posted on 08/31/2025 12:42:26 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
A decade ago today, on 31 August 2015, Angela Merkel made the unilateral decision to open Europe’s borders. The rallying cry of the German Chancellor has gone down in history: ‘Wir schaffen das’ – ‘We can do this’. If we can’t, she added, ‘if Europe fails on the question of refugees, then it won’t be the Europe we wished for’.
Merkel was motivated by conflict in the Middle East, notably in Syria and Iraq, but her invitation to seek refuge in Europe was seized on by many others. Of the estimated 1.3 million people who flooded into Europe in 2015, there were vast numbers of Afghans, Pakistanis, Iraqis, Nigerians, Moroccans, Algerians and Eritreans.
And they kept arriving. Between 2015 and 2017, Germany accepted 1.4 million migrants. France took in 276,000, Italy 240,000 and Sweden 205,000. At the time, most European leaders – except Hungary’s Viktor Orban – were supportive of Merkel. France’s Socialist prime minister in 2015, Manuel Valls, told parliament that the Republic would not be found wanting:
France, faithful to its values, knows who it is… . It is France’s duty to welcome those who are persecuted for their ideas or exposed to risks to their integrity.
In 2023 though, Valls declared that ‘on immigration, we must press the “stop” button’.
That button hasn’t been pressed. After a brief diminution during the Covid pandemic, illegal immigration into Europe has accelerated in the last two years. Last week, authorities on the Canary Islands requested more help from Frontex, the EU’s border agency, because of the number of migrants arriving from Africa.
This week, nearly 800 migrants landed on the Italian island of Lampedusa in a 24-hour period. Illegal immigration from France to England has reached record levels.
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.co.uk ...
|
|
Click here: to donate by Credit Card Or here: to donate by PayPal Or by mail to: Free Republic, LLC - PO Box 9771 - Fresno, CA 93794 Thank you very much and God bless you. |
That’s what happens when you give childless women too much power.
What is it with German Chancellors? There was that other guy, and now her.
She was the worst. Destroyed Germany and Europe.
Childless cat ladies should not be in charge of anything. I think she was some Stasi apparatchik in the East German communist state. This seems to be a recurring theme for “leaders” in failing countries. No skin in the game. Just horrible
I've also wondered why so many Freepers think it would have been better if the left wing part was in charge all that time?
Stasi Bitch!
‘if Europe fails on the question of refugees, then it won’t be the Europe we wished for’
Was she playing on their continuing guilt about their WWII treatment of the Jewish people ?
And now they're critical of Israel.
Merkel graduated from the University of Karl Marx.
The life of refugees should be crimped to make it desirable to go home ASAP:
1. no citizenship possible if refugee/asylum status is requested or granted
2. only one basic cellphone without useable internet capability
3. outbound calling limited to 60 minutes a month
4. inbound calling limited to 200 minutes a month
5. can’t have video devices in your residence or cable service to your residence
6. no driving a motorized vehicle on a public road
7. no ability to fly to a destination in the USA
8. employers to pay a tax rate increasing year by year of residence in the USA on earnings not paid into your return home fund
9. return home fund to be distributed:
a. for purchase of a non-refundable one-way ticket out of the USA specifically for yourself,
b. on personal collection back home,
c. amounts of twice the typical monthly apartment rent in a three-day period between the 15th and 28th of the month to be collectable in each month the State Department rates your country below 4 after the initial two, or on your request,
d. unclaimed amounts to be forfeited
10. no interest to be paid on your return home fund.
I think she thought Syrians were going to be like Turks who prepared themselves to work in Germany.
“Algerian”
In 1962, the French in Algeria were told “suitcase or coffin”.
There’s a huge difference between someone born in Kuwait and someone born in Afghanistan.
Actually, it’s what happens when you don’t execute the Stasi. Merkel should have had a bullet in the back of her head in a forest in 1990
I suggest this plan is more “doable”.
OUT! GET OUT!!!
Deport them immediately and seize their assets...never to return.
As the comedian George Wallace would often say: Some people just need their a**es kicked!
TOOK 10 YEARS TO REALIZE THIS???
VERY SLOW LEARNERS
She was the worst. Destroyed Germany and Europe.
———————
…and Ukraine. She is on record as stating the Minsk Agreements were signed only to give time for Ukraine to prepare for war with Russia.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
