Better Late Than Never: Germany’s Chancellor Decides to Deport 100,000 Refugees

Following a year of the chaos and facing a reelection challenge in the coming year, German Chancellor Angela Merkel seems to finally be rethinking her open-borders refugee policy, and is making plans to start deporting thousands.

According to the Daily Mail:

Germany is planning to return 100,000 rejected asylum seekers to their home countries after Angela Merkel admitted: ‘It cannot be that all young people from Afghanistan come here’.

About 60,000 will be returned under voluntary repatriation programmes while the rest face compulsory deportations, the German chancellor revealed.

Of course, the decision won’t be cost neutral for the German people, as the deportees will be given both a plane ticket and some startup money to help them get back on their feet in their homelands.

And this took a while. Since September of last year, Merkel has stood firmly in her open-borders stance, which allowed over an estimated 1 million unvetted migrants to enter the European country. What followed in the months afterward was a year of chaos, including innumerable sexual assaults, multiple jihadist attacks, and concerns of jihadist infiltration into refugee populations as well as the military. At one point, German officials were even considering putting troops on the streets to address increased security problems.

And who can forget when migrants burned down a refugee center in Düsseldorf earlier this month, claiming there wasn’t enough Nutella and sweets?

The chancellor has invited criticism even from members of her own party, which has suffered in state and local elections in recent months. She faced further challenge recently, after announcing her run at her national party conference.

“With your truly unparalleled ‘laissez-faire’ refugee policy you have burdened us with something that we will not get rid of any time soon,” party member Ulrich Sauer said, according to Reuters. “Step down now before the damage you have done becomes even greater.”

Now, it would seem that after months of electoral hits, intra-party damage, and falling poll numbers, Frau Merkel is finally listening to the will of her own people, but only time will tell if this is the true beginning of a return to normalcy for them.

If the reversal succeeds electorally, Merkel will not have to learn the difficult electoral lesson as the anti-Brexit crowd did in the U.K. or that pro-amnesty Democrats and Republicans learned in the U.S. this year, giving her the chance to eclipse her mentor Helmut Kohl as Germany’s longest-serving postwar chancellor.

As it turns out, when you remove the ability of the body politic to control its own sovereignty, the body politic tends to get ticked off and vote you out of power (especially when they’re being shot, stabbed, blown up, or dealing with artificially deflated wages as a result). Borders are important, as is prioritizing the concerns of your own citizens first.

The world is still dealing with the greatest refugee crisis since the Second World War, but as policymakers like Angela Merkel and others have learned, answering this crisis with charity unbalanced by prudence is a good way to lose the support of your people rather quickly. (For more from the author of “Better Late Than Never: Germany’s Chancellor Decides to Deport 100,000 Refugees” please click HERE)

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