Merkel: Refugees must return home once war is over

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel tried on Saturday to placate the increasingly vocal critics of her open-door policy for refugees by insisting that most refugees from Syria and Iraq would go home once the conflicts there had ended.

Despite appearing increasingly isolated, Merkel has resisted pressure from some conservatives to cap the influx of refugees, or to close Germany's borders.

Support for her conservative bloc has slipped as concerns mount about how Germany will integrate the 1.1 million migrants who arrived last year, while crime and security are also in the spotlight after a wave of assaults on women in Cologne at New Year by men of north African and Arab appearance.

"We need ... to say to people that this is a temporary residential status and we expect that, once there is peace in Syria again, once IS has been defeated in Iraq, that you go back to your home country with the knowledge that you have gained," she told a regional meeting of her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-europe-migrants-germany-refugees-idUSKCN0V80IH

 

[Melech 9,900]

She only says that because of pressure of her own party. The truth is that the majority most likely will stay. (and it don't look like war will be over any time soon anyway). Rarely refugees go back to their country, because a lot are actually building up a life here.  I don't mind if they stay at all. 

[Jay.P 2,336]

Most of them have no home to return to

[Chromatislaps 34,854]

She wants that Syrians return to Syria once the war has cleared, just like some of the Jugoslavic refugees returned to the Balkan are after the Jugoslavian war in the 90s. I don't see the problem of that, it's just that the environmental struggles Syria has, need to be solved to help the syrian refugees, desertification is the biggest problem aside from emissions produced by cars and other vehicles to the greenhouse effect:

 

 

 

[Whispering 18,865]

Unless the refugees go on their own free will (and many of them will return), this isn't going to happen. How do they think they are going to get that many people out of the country? They can't even keep the economic refugees from coming in and they don't have the resources to send them back now. They've already lost track of thousands upon thousands of refugees that came over the last year. How will they track everyone down and how will they force them to go back? 

I guess they could pull all benefits and money, but I don't see Merkel doing that. They might as well start figuring out a way to get people jobs and keep the social services flowing indefinitely. 

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30 minutes ago, Derpplause said:

She wants that Syrians return to Syria once the war has cleared, just like the Jugoslavic refugees returned to the Balkan are after the Jugoslavian war in the 90s. I don't see the problem of that,

 

 

lol

This never happened.

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7 minutes ago, VampireHeart said:

 

lol

This never happened.

Seemingly news sources are not giving different information then, from what I read, some refugees from that war returned to their homelands. Of course, by far most of them did not return.