You 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….
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