Sunday, July 12, 2015

The Open Border

I was looking over German news this morning and there's this small item which details the fact that this week.....the German cops met up with the statistical number of 1,000 refugees being noted in ONE day.  The German cops also kinda admit.....this is the breaking point and they really can't handle this type of number.

I should note.....this came out of Bavaria and represents the southern front of Germany where you'd find most refugees entering the country anyway.

What the 1,000 a day number equates to?  Well.....if it stayed on course, you'd be talking about 365,000 people entering Germany in one year....a hefty number if you compared it against a decade ago.  No one has ever done a survey or study to say how many could enter and find accommodations or fit into integration efforts.  No one has said how all this relates to the current job trends and the unemployment numbers.

What got pointed out in a Focus article this morning was that some of the border experts note that without some type of control.....ISIS members might enter Germany and become part of the overall crowd, and later stage attacks.   I doubt if there's any four-star investigation over each person and their past background or behavior.  Thirty years ago.....there would have been some cop report done on each person before you gave them any type of visa or period of immigration.  I'm not sure of that with the current trend.

My prediction?  Some political players will insist on upping the German border patrol and the police force.  Maybe another 1,000 cops just for Bavaria alone.  The general national election is roughly two years away, but I imagine that some minor German political party will be anti-immigrant and draw ten-percent or more of the national vote as a hard-line develops on the issue.

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