Last night (Monday).....ARD (public TV, Channel One) ran their weekly show....Hart Aber Fair (Hard But Fair) public chat forum. Topic? Well....saving boat people in the Med.
First, lets go and admit this....the public is 'filled-up' on frustration on Covid-19 and it's probably best if these public chat forum shows just lay off the Covid dramatics for six months.
Second, if you did have a chat with a hundred working-class Germans....the save-the-boat-people situation doesn't rate in their top one-hundred or even their top three-hundred problems.
Maybe if you limited your chat to just one-hundred journalists, or one-hundred Green Party members....this save-the-boat-people would rate in their top ten issues. But that's how things shape up at this point.
At this point, just about everyone remembers the 2013 to 2016 open-door period, and the chaos that followed. Maybe if this was 2031 and half of Germany had forgotten the period....different attitudes would prevail.
The chief problem in discussion? Well...if you opened the policy-door, and said that 40,000 boat-people would be put on buses and taken from Italian camps to Germany.....then a million-odd people in non-European lands would get the idea that a new open-door policy exists.....with 10,000 people each week paying some 'broker' to haul them on a raft to some key point where a charity foundation boat would rescue them, then deliver to Italy, and they'd get a chance to get the next bus ride to Germany.
This debate from last night? It was probably a fair summary for most of the 75 minutes of the public debate.
The pro-asylum/pro-migration folks did their talk.....the reality folks did their talk.
At the end of this....at least from my view, the answer was simple. Mandate applications for asylum/migration only occur at German embassy operations in the world, and once accepted....pay for a one-way airline ticket into Germany. Stop the boat chatter, and the save-the-boat-people chatter with this simple solution. You'd control the flow and establish that there is a certain number of people that can enter through this doorway.
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