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[Trojita]

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-europe-migrants-germany-refugees-idUSKCN0V80IH

German Chancellor Angela Merkel tried on Saturday to placate the increasingly vocal critics of her open-door policy for refugees by insisting that most refugees from Syria and Iraq would go home once the conflicts there had ended.

Despite appearing increasingly isolated, Merkel has resisted pressure from some conservatives to cap the influx of refugees, or to close Germany's borders.

Support for her conservative bloc has slipped as concerns mount about how Germany will integrate the 1.1 million migrants who arrived last year, while crime and security are also in the spotlight after a wave of assaults on women in Cologne at New Year by men of north African and Arab appearance.

The influx has played into the hands of the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD), whose support is now in the double digits, and whose leader was quoted on Saturday saying that migrants entering illegally should, if necessary, be shot.

Merkel said it was important to stress that most refugees had only been allowed to stay for a limited period.

"We need ... to say to people that this is a temporary residential status and we expect that, once there is peace in Syria again, once IS has been defeated in Iraq, that you go back to your home country with the knowledge that you have gained," she told a regional meeting of her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

Merkel said 70 percent of the refugees who fled to Germany from former Yugoslavia in the 1990s had returned.

Horst Seehofer, leader of the Christian Social Union (CSU), the CDU's Bavarian sister party, has threatened to take the government to court if the flow of asylum seekers is not cut.

Merkel urged other European countries to offer more help "because the numbers need to be reduced even further and must not start to rise again, especially in spring".

 

[TheOnlyOneHeEverFeared]

When will ISIS be defeated?

 

[daviyoung]

and their kids?

 

[Kas]

When will ISIS be defeated?

Jeb Bush has a plan to defeat ISIS...

Spoiler

/s

 

[TM94]

Who said Germans didn't have a sense of humour?

 

[SolarPowered]

Somehow I don't think they'll be going back to a Syria that might be segmented down the road.

Who said Germans didn't have a sense of humour?

Best post

 

[Abinash117]

When will ISIS be defeated?

http://www.militarytimes.com/story/...n-strategy-islamic-state-iraq-syria/78269180/

This is the strategy that the US has.

I might be a few years before ISIS is defeated, but the civil war would have to be resolved in the Syria. It might be awhile, plus some refugees don't want to go back if government or maybe if the rebels win. I say a quite a few will end up staying depending on how who or if the situation will take a long time to be resolved. Also the country is near completely destroyed; I see no reason many would go back.

 

[kmag]

ISIS won't be defeated until there's a coherent well organised heavily armoured fighting force engaging them on the ground. None of the proxy forces provide that with any real reach (the Kurds can push back backed with airpower in the North but can't sustain any advancement, and there's almost all of the Syrian opposition are engaged with Assad/getting the shit bombed out of them by the Russians)

 

[timetokill]

Who said Germans didn't have a sense of humour?

Hahaha god DAMN

 

[Hip Hop]

Well, that would be the best outcome for all.

But that would only happen if

A) They defeat ISIS

and

B) Countries help on rebuilding

pretty hard things to do.

 

[Breakage]

Yes, I'm sure they'll just up sticks and leave.

 

[leatherhat]

They aren't going to go willingly so unless Merkel is prepared to deport them by force (Hint: she isn't) they aren't going anywhere.

 

[CygnusXS]

Xenophobia in Germany? Hmm, how novel.

 

[Aztechnology]

Who said Germans didn't have a sense of humour?

Mmm damn good.

Angies List.

 

[Kuroyume]

Go home to what? Rubble probably litttered with mines? Who is going to rebuild Syria, etc?

 

[Anion]

Maybe all this refugee hate will finally being a push to make the Middle East actually stable without all the funding of private militias, desecration of property, and complete economic crippling

Oh wait who am I kidding

 

[params7]

Go home to what? Rubble probably litttered with mines? Who is going to rebuild Syria, etc?

China is anxious to rebuild Syria. So is Russia.

 

[Trojita]

Who said Germans didn't have a sense of humour?

AWKWARD!!!

 

[Africanus]

I hope they like making sand castles, because for some that's all that's left of their home.

 

[ClosingADoor]

And how many of the refugees will want to go back then? It's nice to expect it, but reality can be a whole lot different.

Add to that the trouble we already have with deporting people to safe countries who are coming in with the current stream and I am guessing the majority will want to stay in the end.

 

[Imperfected]

Oh, it's just a temporary relocation until there's a lasting peace in the Middle East.

That's fine, then.

 

[Lime]

Damn at that quote about shooting illegal immigrants and refugees :/

 

[Zane]

So, never.

 

[El Topo]

Damn at that quote about shooting illegal immigrants and refugees :/

I'm surprised that she is that honest. The charade is over. Now people voting for AfD have little excuse.

 

[Enosh]

does she like actually believe this?

 

[nephilimdj]

Its pretty interesting if you look at refugee numbers, if you look at the numbers, about 1/2 of large mass refugee crisis have ended in last 10 years. Asian ones seem to come and go really quick outside of Vietnam.

http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SM.POP.REFG.OR

I think she knows its all hopefully thinking, Syria I think will be like Sudan for a long time to come even after peace

 

[braves01]

By home she means Germany.