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Germany: Asylum Seekers Should Be Trained as Truck Drivers
breitbart ^ | Victor Mozambigue

Posted on 05/23/2018 8:56:48 AM PDT by davikkm

A pilot project in Germany is working to make it easier for asylum seekers to become truck drivers – an initiative that comes amid widespread unemployment for migrants who arrived during the migrant crisis. The German Red Cross and the Logistics Organisation want to alleviate the shortage of drivers in the state of Schleswig-Holstein with targetted recruiting of asylum seekers, in moves that have been praised as “imaginative and praiseworthy” by regional Economics Minister Bernd Buchholz, reports Kieler Nachrichten.

A similar nation-wide programme of hiring asylum seekers and refugees as truck drivers was pushed by German Chancellor Angela Merkel after she opened Europe’s borders to over one million Middle Eastern and African migrants in 2015, the vast majority of whom are unskilled.

In September 2016, two prominent German driving associations rejected Merkel’s calls – their comments coming just three months before Libyan failed asylum seeker Anis Amri stole an articulated lorry, killed the Polish driver, and drove it into a Berlin Christmas market killing 11 and injuring over 50.

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To: blueunicorn6

And while they are at it, train them to run large camps and
ovens.


41 posted on 05/23/2018 10:14:55 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: davikkm

Yeah - make sure they’re well-trained and in big vehicles for when a heavy pedestrian opportunity pops up...


42 posted on 05/23/2018 10:34:46 AM PDT by trebb (I stopped picking on the mentally ill hypocrite<i> Yet anoths who pose as conservatives...mostly ;-})
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To: davikkm

One bratwurst short of a combo meal...


43 posted on 05/23/2018 11:58:27 AM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: davikkm

Many are already driving trucks here in the USA,from what my trucker friends tell me. They drive like a bat out of hell.


44 posted on 05/24/2018 2:45:17 AM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: davikkm

Can they find them jobs delivering explosives while their at it?


45 posted on 05/24/2018 2:46:49 AM PDT by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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To: davikkm

Death wish.


46 posted on 05/24/2018 3:05:30 AM PDT by BelleAl (Proud to be a member of the party of NO! NO more deficit spending and government control!)
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