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<\/a>1) In yesterday\u2019s spiegel.de, \u201cFehlende Notunterk\u00fcnfte: M\u00fcnchen rechnet mit bis zu 13.000 Fl\u00fcchtlingen<\/a>\u201c, or \u201cInsufficient emergency housing: \u00a0Munich expects up to 13,000 refugees\u201d \u2014 that is, at the time of the article\u2019s writing, 13,000 refugees were expected to have arrived in Munich in a single day<\/strong>. \u00a0The city is overwhelmed, and the article speaks of using a stadium as temporary housing, and then setting up a tent city.<\/p>\n 2) Today, the Telegraph reported on developing events<\/a>\u00a0(via instapundit.com<\/a>), including a retreat from the temporary policy of allowing asylum-seekers to come directly to Germany, and a further temporary return to border controls. \u00a0The article quotes\u00a0Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere at a press conference:<\/p>\n Bild newspaper cited security sources as saying that the state government in Bavaria had asked the federal police to help deal with the task. The newspaper said the federal police would send 2,100 officers to Bavaria to help it secure its borders.<\/p>\n Mr de Maiziere warned today that refugees streaming into Europe cannot choose which country they want to settle in, as tens of thousands surged through the continent in search of shelter.<\/p>\n \u201cWe can\u2019t allow refugees to freely choose where they want to stay \u2013 that\u2019s not the case anywhere in the world,\u201d de Maiziere said.<\/p>\n \u201cIt also can\u2019t be our duty to pay benefits laid out in German law to refugees who have been allocated to one EU country and then come to Germany anyway,\u201d he added.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n They also quote the Polish\u00a0secretary of state for European affairs,\u00a0Rafal Trzaskowski:<\/p>\n \u201cIf certain conditions are met, we are willing to show more solidarity than so far,\u201d he was quoted as saying by tvn24.pl website. \u201cWhat are the conditions?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe have to firmly secure EU\u2019s external borders, we have to clearly distinguish economic migrants, accepting whom we cannot afford, from refugees that one needs to help, because they are fleeing death or persecution,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Trzaskowski said the third condition was that the Polish government had influence over the verification of those accepted from the point of view of security threats.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n 3) And speaking of security threats and economic migrants, here\u2019s a report from a conservative news site, Top Right News<\/a>:<\/p>\n An ISIS terrorist posing as an \u201casylum seeker\u201d has been arrested by German police in a \u201crefugee\u201d center in Stuttgart, and German customs officers have seized boxes containing 10,000 Syrian passports being smuggled into Europe \u2014 possibly to be utilized by ISIS cell members to blend into German society.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Now, I ordinarily don\u2019t cite this as an appropriate news source, but they cite two German news sources, RTL for the arrest of the \u201casylum seeker\u201d<\/a> and tagesspiegel.de for the smuggling of Syrian passports<\/a>\u00a0, which, whether stolen or falsified, are highly-sought after for both actual Syrian refugees in Turkey who have lost, or never had, a passport, and for non-Syrians (Iraqis, Afghanis, Pakistanis, and migrants from Macedonia & Serbia) who aim to pass themselves off as Syrians.<\/p>\n 4) And speaking of economic migrants, here\u2019s a report by the AP (which appeared in Friday\u2019s Tribune): \u00a0\u201cFor Savvy Migrants, Social Media Helps Ease Trip to the West<\/a>.\u201d \u00a0The article is about how migrants use facebook pages and other sources to make connections with smugglers and plan their route, which is not a surprise, but take a look at who they profile in the story:<\/p>\n The 26-year-old Syrian economics graduate knew exactly what to do and where to go. . . .<\/p>\n \u201cI have researched our journey for more than two months,\u201d said Zaidah, a native of the Syrian city of Aleppo who has worked the past two years as an accountant in Istanbul.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n So, yes, maybe this is indeed the sort of person that Daimler wants to recruit<\/a>, but does he deserve admittance into Germany as a refugee, when he left what sounds like a reasonably-stable, not particularly desperate situation in Turkey?<\/p>\n 5) Oh, and the Saudis? \u00a0In a completely tone-deaf move, they\u2019ve offered \u2014 not to resettle refugees in their own country, nor to bump up their spending on refugee camps in Turkey, Lebanon, etc. \u2014 to fund 200 new mosques in Germany. \u00a0See The Independent for an English-language account<\/a>, via twitter, or their source, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung<\/a>, which reveals that not only are Saudi Arabia and the UAE not helping, but they\u2019re not even\u00a0extending residency permits for Syrian guest workers. \u00a0(Of course, it\u2019s fruitless to condemn the Saudis. \u00a0Per my earlier post<\/a>,\u00a0I would be shocked if this effort to shame the Gulf States into stepping up made a difference. \u00a0And remember my list of cultural traits<\/a>? \u00a0The Saudis and their neighbors are not like us. \u00a0They do not share our values of helping the needy, at least not when it goes against their own culture, which prioritizes securing the well-being of their own group, first and foremost.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It is really, really difficult to keep up with what\u2019s going on, as refugee\/migrants continue to flood into Germany. \u00a0But: 1) In yesterday\u2019s spiegel.de, \u201cFehlende Notunterk\u00fcnfte: M\u00fcnchen rechnet mit bis zu 13.000 Fl\u00fcchtlingen\u201c, or \u201cInsufficient emergency housing: \u00a0Munich expects up to 13,000 refugees\u201d \u2014 that is, at the time of the article\u2019s writing, 13,000 refugees […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2209,"featured_media":2766,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[449],"class_list":["post-2762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-refugees"],"yoast_head":"\n