With Merkel's Foes in Disarray, Germany Defies the Trump Trend

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(04-24-2017, 09:08 AM)Belsnickel Wrote: And, it should be noted, the goal is not for the refugees to remain in Europe permanently. Those refugees would rather be home, and the goal is to make that happen.

I think the problem is that a lot of people conflate several different issues into one when it comes to what is going on in Europe.

Yeah, that's a good goal, it's just questionable how realistic that is. You can keep people on hold only for so many months. At some point, you would need to get then some perspective. Allowance to work. At some point, they will want a place to live. At some point, they want to start a family. If they already have one, the kids will go to school. They strike some roots. As the years go by, less and less people will be willing to go back into a wasted homeland. 
And no one knows how long Syria will be in war, and no one knows what peace looks like. Who will be the victor, Assad? Muslim brotherhood? Do they want the refugees back? There are a lot of question marks, and it's not unreasonable to believe most refugees in the end are here to stay. Happened with Jugoslavia too.

(04-24-2017, 04:51 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Or they never tried because they knew that until mid-2016, Sweden gave daily allowances of money even to refugees who were denied asylum. 

I would love to know how many people who went to Sweden had paperwork from Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Germany, AND Denmark showing they were denied asylum... because that's the countries you'd need to pass through in the straightest mostly land route from Syria to Sweden, even if you ignore the countries around those who they could have gone to.

Now that's a fairly complicated route... but really, most refugees are appointed through the EU administration. We have quotas.