Just few minuites ago,Angela Merkel announced plans to
deport 100,000 migrants who arrived in Germany last year as she continues to
backtrack on her controversial open door asylum policy.
The beleaguered Chancellor said authorities would
significantly step up the rate of forced returns as she battles to arrest an
alarming slump in her popularity which has fuelled a surge in support for the
far-right.
Mrs Merkel, whose decision to roll out the red carpet to
migrants from across Africa and the Middle East spectacularly backfired, has
taken an increasingly tough tone on immigration in recent months.
And in her toughest rhetoric yet the German leader told MPs
from her party this week: ”The most important thing in the coming months is
repatriation, repatriation and once more, repatriation.”
The stance marks an astonishing U-turn from the once
pro-refugee Chancellor, who has been widely pilloried by critics at home and
abroad for her decision to throw open Germany’s borders to millions of
migrants.
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