Even after the wave of Muslim migrant violence, including over a
thousand New Year's Eve sexual assaults and multiple plots and acts of
terror, Merkel madly insisted on maintaining the migrant crisis. And now
her government
tried to put on a little show.
The German government is planning a host of new security measures in
the wake of a few violent incidents in Würzburg, Ansbach and Munich. The
measures include an increase in police personnel, a central crime unit
for pursuing crime on the internet, easier deportation for migrants who
have committed crimes, and depriving Germans who join foreign "terror
militias" of their citizenship.
"I am convinced that these
proposals will increase security quickly," Interior Minister Thomas de
Maiziere told reporters in a special press conference in Berlin on
Thursday, before adding that all the proposals could be implemented in
this legislative period, which ends next fall.
It's of course the deportations that matter and leave it to the Greens
to explain why that's an empty production playing to a full house.
Volker Beck said de Maiziere's plans would do little to increase
security. In a statement, the Green party's migration spokesman
dismissed threatening jihadists with losing their German citizenship as
"despairing politicking."
And Beck added that speeding up
deportations was not as easy as de Maiziere suggested, not least because
many refugees do not have valid papers. "The fact is that not a few
embassies simply refuse to issue passports for those affected," he said.
"Accusations and tightening residency laws makes precious little
difference. We'd be better advised to give all people whose deportations
are impossible for actual reasons the prospect of staying."
Sure. Let's give the terrorists a reason to stay. But Beck isn't
wrong about the facts. Until Germany, and for that matter America, cease
relying on mutual cooperation for deportations, such measures are a
joke. Try deporting a Syrian. Or for that matter, in the US, a Haitian.
De Maiziere resisted calls from state interior ministers - and also
members of his Christian Democratic Union (CDU) - to ban the
face-covering Islamic dress the burqa in Germany. He called the idea
"constitutionally problematic" and added: "You can't ban everything you
oppose, and I oppose the wearing of a burqa."
But they can ban criticism of Islam.
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