Merkel expects most Syrian and Iraqi refugees to return home once conflict is over

dw.com ^ | 31.01.2016

[BenLurkin]

Speaking at a regional party meeting, Chancellor Angela Merkel sought to moderate the criticism which has grown over her open-door policy towards refugees from conflict areas in Syria and Iraq.

"We need ... to say to people that this is a temporary residential status and we expect that, once there is peace in Syria again, once IS has been defeated in Iraq, that you go back to your home country with the knowledge that you have gained," she told members of her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania on Saturday.

The Chancellor used the example of the refugees from the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s who came to Germany. She said that 70 percent of them had returned home.

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Merkel urged other European countries to offer more help by taking in refugees: "because the numbers need to be reduced even further and must not start to rise again, especially in spring."

[elpadre]

The refugees will return to their native lands and give up all the freebies?? Sure they will. (sarc)

[DaveA37]

She smoking pot again or drinking too much German beer?

The “invaders” aren’t going to leave since they never had is so good in their “homeland”.

[central_va]

I believe the name merkel will become a word like quisling did.

mer - kel

Definition: to engineer a foreign invasion of un assimilating foreigners to further the socialist agenda without the consent of the indigenous pollution .