Posted on 08/16/2017 11:12:19 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Alexander Gauland, the top candidate for the right-wing populist Alternative for Germany, has told DW there should be a clear path for repatriating migrants. Accepting refugees is not in Germany’s interest, he said.
Alexander Gauland is the top candidate for Alternative for Germany (AfD) in September’s general election. In an interview with DW Editor-in-Chief Ines Pohl and moderator Jaafar Abdul-Karim, he said that Germany and Europe’s borders should be closed. The former, long-time member of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) said it is wrong that people without papers can enter Germany. “These people shouldn’t even be allowed into the country,” he said.
Ayslum seekers should be in asylum centers outside Germany, even outside Europe, where they can apply for asylum if they really qualify, he added. Those fleeing a war zone, such as Syria, are entitled to only limited asylum according to the Geneva Convention, he said. Gauland is running with Alice Weidel as right-wing populist party’s top candidates for the Bundestag.
Most migrants are arriving for economic reasons, and while people have a legitimate right to seek a better life, he said, it is equally legitimate for a state to deny them a place. “We have to take our own interests into account, and taking in masses of refugees is not in the interests of Germany,” Gauland said, adding that Germany is “not the world’s doormat.” …
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...repeated again and again...
moderator Jaafar Abdul-Karim
...aaaand the fix is in.
DW no longer allows Disqus commenting either. I think one too many anti-Trump articles made them stop. The Local is the same.
No surprise there, then. DW is (and always has been) state-sponsored propaganda. Like Radio Free Europe during the cold war (CIA). Wait, what? Anti-Trump articles made them stop? The articles or the comments to the articles?
The comments. They must have been too pro-Trump for their liking.
There was someone called “Gretchen” who kept posting hate against Breitbart. Someone told her that at least after DW stops their comments sections, she could still post away to her heart’s content on Breitbart, and perhaps she ought to actually read what they say for a change.
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