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President Ronald Reagan: "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"
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<blockquote data-quote="Halbhh" data-source="post: 74457886" data-attributes="member: 375234"><p>A <em>conservative Christian Democrat</em> German Chancellor....would know the German people better than you and me.</p><p></p><p>Consider a nation that has gone vastly <em>faster </em>(and really had too many come in just 1 year) than we have in admitting refugees as a % portion of the nation's population.</p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>German chancellor Angela Merkel’s decision in 2015 to keep her country’s borders open and give shelter to hundreds of thousands of refugees was praised by <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/01/guardian-view-on-europe-refugee-crisis-leadership-at-last-angela-merkel" target="_blank">commentators</a> and <a href="https://www.dw.com/en/obamas-praise-for-merkel-on-syrian-refugees-highlights-us-deficiencies/a-18677817" target="_blank">leaders</a> around the world. Her decision was also approved of by thousands of German citizens who <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-europe-migrants-germany-insight/refugee-crisis-shows-the-changing-soul-of-germany-idUSKCN0RD0JU20150913" target="_blank">welcomed refugees</a> and provided clothes, food, and other support.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em></em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>The term welcome culture, or Willkommenskultur, was frequently used in political debates and the media to describe the events of autumn 2015.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em></em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>But a year later, the picture had <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17449626.2016.1252785?needAccess=true" target="_blank">changed dramatically</a>. By the end of 2016, the public debate had shifted to focus on the so-called refugee crisis, or Flüchtlingskrise, alongside the religion of refugees and migrants, and limits to Germany’s capacity to integrate them. The change of perspective was reflected in discussions about <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-europe-migrants-germany/merkel-ally-says-germany-has-changed-course-in-refugee-crisis-idUSKCN0WM0NE" target="_blank">upper limits</a> – Obergrenzen — of the numbers of refugees that should be allowed to enter the country.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em><a href="http://theconversation.com/we-asked-germans-what-they-really-felt-after-angela-merkel-opened-the-borders-to-refugees-in-2015-103634" target="_blank">We asked Germans what they really felt after Angela Merkel opened the borders to refugees in 2015</a></em></p><p></p><p>Merkel is a Christian Democrat, conservative. And....seems to be familiar with God's way.</p><p></p><p>But there is an upper limit politically in how much a nation can tolerate all at once. We are nowhere close to what Germany did. Not close.</p><p></p><p>In America, our immigrants did not all come in 1 or 2 or 3 years. They came gradually over decades.</p><p></p><p>We know and love them. Many of us.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Halbhh, post: 74457886, member: 375234"] A [I]conservative Christian Democrat[/I] German Chancellor....would know the German people better than you and me. Consider a nation that has gone vastly [I]faster [/I](and really had too many come in just 1 year) than we have in admitting refugees as a % portion of the nation's population. [INDENT][I]German chancellor Angela Merkel’s decision in 2015 to keep her country’s borders open and give shelter to hundreds of thousands of refugees was praised by [URL='https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/01/guardian-view-on-europe-refugee-crisis-leadership-at-last-angela-merkel']commentators[/URL] and [URL='https://www.dw.com/en/obamas-praise-for-merkel-on-syrian-refugees-highlights-us-deficiencies/a-18677817']leaders[/URL] around the world. Her decision was also approved of by thousands of German citizens who [URL='https://www.reuters.com/article/us-europe-migrants-germany-insight/refugee-crisis-shows-the-changing-soul-of-germany-idUSKCN0RD0JU20150913']welcomed refugees[/URL] and provided clothes, food, and other support. The term welcome culture, or Willkommenskultur, was frequently used in political debates and the media to describe the events of autumn 2015. But a year later, the picture had [URL='https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17449626.2016.1252785?needAccess=true']changed dramatically[/URL]. By the end of 2016, the public debate had shifted to focus on the so-called refugee crisis, or Flüchtlingskrise, alongside the religion of refugees and migrants, and limits to Germany’s capacity to integrate them. The change of perspective was reflected in discussions about [URL='https://www.reuters.com/article/us-europe-migrants-germany/merkel-ally-says-germany-has-changed-course-in-refugee-crisis-idUSKCN0WM0NE']upper limits[/URL] – Obergrenzen — of the numbers of refugees that should be allowed to enter the country. [URL="http://theconversation.com/we-asked-germans-what-they-really-felt-after-angela-merkel-opened-the-borders-to-refugees-in-2015-103634"]We asked Germans what they really felt after Angela Merkel opened the borders to refugees in 2015[/URL][/I][/INDENT] Merkel is a Christian Democrat, conservative. And....seems to be familiar with God's way. But there is an upper limit politically in how much a nation can tolerate all at once. We are nowhere close to what Germany did. Not close. In America, our immigrants did not all come in 1 or 2 or 3 years. They came gradually over decades. We know and love them. Many of us. [/QUOTE]
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