Four years since launching her dubious open-door migrant policy, German Chancellor Angela Merkel was again forced to defend it as she addressed her supporters in Brandenburg, Sputnik News reports.
Merkel said her migrant policy had been Germany’s response to the exceptional situation generated by civil war in Syria and the rampant ISIS terror threat in the Middle East.
The embattled Chancellor insisted it was never a mistake to take in people, but rather mistakes had been made earlier, by European countries failing to address the refugee crises in such volatile states as Lebanon or Jordan, adding: “That’s why our lesson is: provide local help”.
The country’s refugee policy has long been a source of discord, both within Germany and among many of her EU partners.
Last year, protesters opposed to Angela Merkel’s refugee policy took to the streets in a number of cities, prompted by acts of violence, including gang rape and murder, allegedly perpetrated by migrants.
Although many Germans had initially showed support for their chancellor’s open-door migrant policy, when faced by an overwhelming influx, clashes in refugee centres, and a backlog of registrations, dissent among the ranks of Angela Merkel’s government eventually sparked a major political backlash that left Angela Merkel reeling.
The chancellor’s popularity ratings took a unusual hit, she proceeded to flop in polls during the 2017 elections and struggled to assemble a coalition government.
Merkel finally quit as leader of her Christian Democratic Party, announcing she would stand down as chancellor at the next election.
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OK, Angels, we hard you, the two million refugees have been cared for and protected. The war is over and now its time for them to return home and rebuild whatever is left of Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and the other shitholes form which they crawled.