Believe it or not, there are people in Germany who think Angela Merkel isn’t destroying Germany fast enough and they’re quite angry about it!
On Monday, a coalition of dozens of German municipalities demanded that Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government allow them to immediately begin resettling refugees rescued on the Mediterranean Sea.
With EU efforts toward political solutions to rescue and distribute refugees effectively at a standstill, representatives from Potsdam, Düsseldorf and elsewhere told a joint press conference that it is their humanitarian duty to upend the current status quo on migration policy.
“We would be prepared to take in more people if we were allowed,” Mike Schubert, mayor of Potsdam and a member of the initiative Cities of Safe Harbours, told reporters on Monday. “We are currently experiencing a policy of wait and see, but that’s the opposite of acting.”
Since Merkel’s decision in 2015 to keep Germany’s borders open to almost 1 million displaced people, her government has engaged in a “balancing act between promoting integration and controlling immigration,” according to the Expert Council of German Foundations on Integration and Migration (SVR).
Germany has passed legislation to prioritize the integration of asylum-seekers from Syria and other nations and has streamlined the application procedure with new administrative one-stop shops.
But, with migration remaining a top political issue among Germans and a clarion call for the far-right, Merkel’s government has also moved to speed up deportations and has discussed bolstered police presence on the nation’s borders to halt unauthorized migration.
It’s a different situation entirely on the EU level, where “lawmaking on refugees and asylum is practically at a standstill,” the SVR notes.
The European Union’s adherence to the Dublin Regulation, a rule by which asylum-seekers must be processed in the EU country of their arrival, has put huge strain on nations such as Greece, Italy, Spain and Malta, where people who have made the treacherous journey across the Mediterranean often port.
In Greece, reports indicate that tens of thousands of people spend untold months living in squalor in camps packed far beyond capacity, while Italy has pursued legal action against civil society organizations that bring rescued refugees to the country’s shores.
Meanwhile, EU states have severely cut back their own rescue efforts on the Mediterranean, leaving most work to just a few civil society organizations that operate ships in the region, the UN Refugee Agency notes.
Given the confusing legal and political situation, a coalition of member states — including Germany, Malta, Italy and France — agreed to a framework for saving and distributing refugees in September, with Interior Minister Horst Seehofer pledging that Germany would take in one-quarter of the people saved at sea.
The Cities of Safe Harbours initiative seeks to break that standstill by petitioning for special permissions to immediately accept refugees rescued on the Mediterranean and stranded in Greece, Italy and elsewhere.
The coalition started with 13 founding municipalities in June 2019 and now has 120, representatives told reporters on Monday.
Cities of Safe Harbours has asked the government to trigger Section 23, Paragraph 1 of Germany’s Residence Act, which allows for the immediate distribution of specialty humanitarian residence permits without legislative acrobatics.
The move would provide new momentum for talks on restarting state-funded rescue initiatives and reforming EU asylum procedures, members said.
“Municipalities need to have more say in the matter,” said Miriam Koch, director of Düsseldorf’s department for migration and integration, who added that the city has the capacity to take in 5,000 more people. “This urgent situation is only continuing, and we need to directly deal with it.”
Cities of Safe Harbours members contended that they have appealed to the Interior Ministry since before the initiative’s founding and still have not received an answer to their calls.
“What’s the alternative to saving people at sea? To allow people to drown?” said Schubert, the mayor of Potsdam. “The number of those who stand at the ready to intercept this catastrophe is growing every day.”
Can you believe what you just read?? This is not just treason, this is complete madness! This is the death of Europe as we know it!
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Schubert – a Jew.
Every. Single. Time.
The death of( white) Europe is what commie Merkel and the communist EU wants. All Europeans since 1945 have been brainwashed by their democratic (communist) “liberators” and none more so than the Germans, to hate their own people. they are told every day that the white Christian gentile Adolf Hitler was the most evil person in the history of the world, that he started the second world war, that he exterminated six million Jews, a claim that was started by Hitler’s mortal enemy, Stalin and his Jewish Bolsheviks who when they “liberated” Auschwitz found no “gas chambers” so they built some after the war to justify their original claim. Thousands of people pay good money to visit the “death camp”, they are shown piles of shoes, cloths, glasses etc and believe that these items are proof that six million Jews were exterminated at the camp, which in reality was a labour camp where quite a lot of children were born. The legend on the gates at Auschwitz says “work will set you free. Refusing to believe the lies of those who hate the white Christian gentiles will set you free. here are some books to start you on your journey of liberation from Zionist enslavement. THE NAMELESS WAR, by Captain Archibald Ramsay, THE FORCED WAR, UNCONDITIONAL HATRED by Captain Russell Grenfell, THE CZECH CONSPIRACY, by George Pitt-Rivers. All of these books can be downloaded from the internet. Read these books and see how you have been total fooled by the likes of Churchill, Roosevelt and the fake historians.