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CSU hardens stance against immigration
Published: 14 Oct 10 08:01 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.de/politics/20101014-30483.html
The general secretary of the Christian Social Union has declared that “Germany is not an immigration country,” signalling that the Bavarian conservatives were defiantly standing their ground over recent attacks on immigrants.
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“The USA is an immigration country. Germany is not an immigration country. We have a culture that has grown over centuries.”
The hardening stance by the CSU, which is the Bavarian sister party of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats, is also likely to put it at odds with ruling coalition partners the Free Democrats (FDP), which has floated the idea of solving Germany’s looming skills shortages by lifting the rate at which educated and qualified immigrants settle here.
On that issue, Dobrindt said the problems had to be solved “without repeating the problems of the last wave of immigration, which we still have not fixed today.”
Regarding his party boss, CSU leader and Bavarian premier Horst Seehofer’s recent call to stop Turkish and Arab immigration, Dobrindt said “truth doesn’t defame.”
An apology was Seehofer was not necessary, he said. The problems with some immigration groups were bigger than the problems with others, he added.
Seehofer told news magazine Focus at the weekend that “immigrants from other cultures, such as those from Turkey and Arab countries have more difficulties” integrating into German culture. Therefore he had drawn the “conclusion that we need no additional immigration from other cultural areas.”
Meanwhile a poll released on Wednesday showed that one-tenth of Germans want a “Führer,” while a quarter admitted to strong xenophobic attitudes – up from one-fifth in 2008. The results appeared to show the acrid immigration debate sparked this summer by former Bundesbank board member Thilo Sarrazin was having an effect on the German public.
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It was the time when foreigner worker came and worked. they pay taxes and raise economy. Now they are burden strange!!!!. By the way the burden is only Arab and Turks or all foreigners here in Germany?
Sure man, i said just do it. instead of igniting the same problem after intervals of time. Do this and get rid of this topic.
In the US, it's the big corporations, especially the big farming companies, who want immigrant labor. And not just any immigrant, but specifically illegal immigrants.
Illegal immigrants can be paid less and forced to work long hours, and they dare not complain. If they do complain, then they are fired, with no legal options, and another illegal immigrant takes their place. In the US, conservative right wing politicians scream about too many illegal immigrants, but they take campaign contributions from the corporations who want those illegal workers.
Germany is facing a huge pension problem. If Germany doesn't allow more workers in from other countries who can pay taxes, then German women better start pumping out the babies!
That's so racist!
"I see nothing wrong in Germans wanting to have only people who are culturally and racially similar to them coming in and working in Germany."
If every single country apply that crap then we wouldn't have the need to travel abroad, etc... Since YOU could ONLY travel to a country RACIALLY SIMILAR to your "dream" land. Following your logic USA wouldn't exist now...
No. He is correct. You are wrong.
European people have built the best countries in the world to live. There is a reason why the 23% of the population that lives in the Western world has created 73% of the world's wealth. THERE IS NO OBLIGATION ON GERMANY OR ANY GERMANS ANYWHERE TO BE A MARTYR FOR MULTICULTURALISM. It is a failed God, one that is pulling Europe to ruin.
Third world people make third world countries.
It's MADNESS... madness I say!
And how do they create wealth? By exploring and "stealing" resources from the real countries. Yes there is no obligation for germans to take everyone (I agree), neither to accept a destructive cultural flavours! BUT living in a global world and not in a closet society europe we must understand that this interaction is necessary. Because if Germany exports and sales, it exports and sales to somewhere...
And even now, only if we can find a way to deport all the German immigrants working illegally in NYC as bartender, waiters, and aspiring actors on their extended … and not-so-extended student visas!
Also, I bet Spain, Thailand, Ecuador … and god-knows any other country infested and bombarded with German/European pensioners wouldn¦#39;t mind getting rid of old gizzards who don¦#39;t speak a word of the local language even after living in those countries for decades!
If immigrants live in bad conditions because they breed like rats and cannot support their own families, it is hardly the responsibility of responsible taxpayers to assume the burden.
They can live in filth in their own country or yours. Sooner or later your country will be bankrupt or become in the same dire straits as the country they left.
Personally they should all be repatriated back to their country of origin if they cannot assimilate.