{"id":6601,"date":"2016-07-29T03:36:47","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T02:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soerenkern.com\/?p=6601"},"modified":"2016-08-01T03:43:54","modified_gmt":"2016-08-01T02:43:54","slug":"germany-no-change-open-door-migration-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/2016\/07\/29\/germany-no-change-open-door-migration-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany: &#8220;No Change to Open-Door Migration Policy&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/soerenkern.com\/2016\/07\/29\/germany-no-change-open-door-migration-policy\/germany-open-door\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6602\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6602\" src=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/germany-open-door.jpg\" alt=\"germany-open-door\" width=\"600\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/germany-open-door.jpg 600w, https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/germany-open-door-300x171.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Chancellor Angela Merkel ignored critics of her refugee policies and insisted there would be no change to her open-door migration stance.<\/em><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Germany: &#8220;No Change to Open-Door Migration Policy&#8221;<\/h3>\n<p>Soeren Kern | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/8591\/germany-open-door-migration\" target=\"_blank\">Gatestone Institute<\/a> | July 29, 2016<\/p>\n<p>German Chancellor Angela Merkel has rejected criticism of her decision to allow more than a million mostly Muslim migrants to enter Germany last year.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at an annual summer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bundesregierung.de\/Content\/DE\/Mitschrift\/Pressekonferenzen\/2016\/07\/2016-07-28-bpk-merkel.html?nn=694676\" target=\"_blank\">press conference<\/a> in Berlin on July 28, a defiant Merkel ignored critics of her refugee policies and insisted there would be no change to her open-door migration stance. She also said she bears no responsibility for a recent spate of violent attacks in Germany.<\/p>\n<p>Germany has been rattled by an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/8528\/germany-wurzburg-attack-jihad\" target=\"_blank\">axe attack<\/a> on a train in W\u00fcrzburg, a mass shooting in Munich, a machete attack in Reutlingen and a suicide bomb in Ansbach\u2014all within a week.<\/p>\n<p>The attacks, which left 13 dead, were all carried out by Muslims: Three of the attacks were carried out by asylum seekers and one by a German-Iranian who harbored a hatred of Arabs and Turks.<\/p>\n<p>Merkel, who interrupted her summer holiday to attend the 90-minute press conference, which was pushed forward by a month, reiterated her credo: \u201cWe can do it!\u201d (\u201c<em>Wir schaffen das!<\/em>\u201d). She has repeated the phrase over and over since Germany\u2019s migration crisis exploded on September 4, 2015, when she opened up the German border to tens of thousands of migrants stranded in Hungary.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/8591\/germany-open-door-migration\" target=\"_blank\">Continue Reading Here<\/a>\u00bb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chancellor Angela Merkel ignored critics of her refugee policies and insisted there would be no change to her open-door migration stance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,48],"tags":[179,21,195],"class_list":["post-6601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-germany","category-islam-in-europe","tag-germany","tag-immigration","tag-migration-crisis"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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