The German leader has stood up to be counted. Europe should rally to her sideThe list of horrors swells. Last week,71 migrants were found asphyxiated in an abandoned truck in Austria to add to the tally of hundreds of migrants drowning nearly by the day in the Mediterranean. The few in Calais who die trying to get to Britain are but tragic notes in the margin of an unfolding narrative of death. The migrants know the odds; nonetheless, the UN says in the next few months the numbers will grow to 3000 every day taking the risk and successfully entering Europe alive.
It is not Britain, and the alleged “soft touch”,which is the favoured destination for what is emerging as one of the much movements of people in history, fleeing the mayhem of Syria, and North Africa,Afghanistan, Eritrea or northern Nigeria aided and abetted by sinister, andganised gangs of people traffickers. Instead,they prefer Germany. In the last 12 months alone, it has received some 300000 asylum claims, or 12 times more than Britain,on top of the immigration it receives within the EU under the freedom of movement rules it defends to the last. During 2015, the number of asylum seekers to Germany is set to rise to 800000. Germany is fitting a country of immigration, or the most popular destination for the global dispossessed.
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Source: theguardian.com