I Can't Believe What Germany and Austria Just Did... er, Stopped Doing About Syrian Refugees

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-12-10 04:17:28 | Updated at 2024-12-16 07:52:06 6 days ago

I Can't Believe What Germany and Austria Just Did... er, Stopped Doing About Syrian Refugees
PJ Media ^ | 12/09/2024 | Stephen Green

Posted on 12/09/2024 8:08:57 PM PST by SeekAndFind

ou can get an idea of how gobsmackingly awful the Syrian Civil War was (is?) and how stupid Germany's immigration policy is with this one simple statistic: nearly one in 20 Syrians lives in Germany. Syria's pre-civil war population of Syria was about 21 million people, and the latest figures show the Federal Republic serving as home to 972,460 Syrian refugees.

All that seems to have come to an end along with the Bashar al-Assad regime this weekend.

Berlin says it will "freeze asylum processing for Syrian citizens," according to an al-Jazeera report today. "The Federal Office for Migration and Refugees told Der Spiegel news magazine on Monday that the move was taken in light of the unclear and unpredictable political situation in Syria, which would place asylum decisions 'on shaky ground.'"

DW also reported that discussions have begun "about the possible return of Syrian migrants and asylum-seekers to their home country" now that Assad is gone. "Senior leaders of Germany's opposition Christian Democratic Union (CDU), and its Bavarian sister party Christian Social Union (CSU), suggested encouraging Syrians to return to their homeland," the paper wrote. Jens Spahn, a prominent CDU politician, told RTL today, "As a first step, I would say that we are making an offer. How about the German government saying: anyone who wants to go back to Syria, we'll charter planes for them and give them a starting payment of €1,000 ($1,060)."

Austria has also stopped processing refugees. Visegrád 24 posted on X this morning, "Austria is freezing all new asylum applications & re-examining old ones. Family reunifications are suspended." Interior Minister Gerhard Karner even said, "I'm starting a deportation program to Syria."

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Germany; News/Current Events; Syria
KEYWORDS: europe; germany; migrantinvasion; openborders; refugees; syria

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1 posted on 12/09/2024 8:08:57 PM PST by SeekAndFind

To: SeekAndFind

I suspect this development has given these governments the excuse they have needed all along to suspend their self-destructive migrant policies.

2 posted on 12/09/2024 8:11:28 PM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)

To: SeekAndFind

Maybe all the slime that Mutti Merkel left in can now be returned to Syria. They SHOULD be but probably won’t.

Syria will be heaven on Earth for them now, don’t cha know,

3 posted on 12/09/2024 8:13:53 PM PST by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX.)

To: SeekAndFind

anyone who wants to go back to Syria, we'll charter planes for them and give them a starting payment of €1,000 ($1,060)."

Make it €10,000.

Most of them won't take it even if you offer them that much money. They know that Syria is a $#ithole.

To: SeekAndFind

Biden will take them.

But they have just 5 weeks to make it here.

Or we can go there and take over the place. (But Trump says no).

5 posted on 12/09/2024 8:16:30 PM PST by adorno ( )

To: SeekAndFind

So before Assad was thrown out most of the Syrian “refugees” were anti-Assad people who Assad was supposedly terrorizing.

Now that he’s gone all the pro Assad people will be terrorized by the new Jihadists, so they’ll have a claim to Germany’s stupid self-destructive generosity.

6 posted on 12/09/2024 8:16:44 PM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they. control you. )

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