Germany has reached 'a limit' on migration, Steinmeier says – DW

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Germany has reached 'a limit' on migration, Steinmeier says – DW – 09/20/2023
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Germany is facing difficulties in taking in more migrants, President Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on Wednesday.

"Germany, like Italy, is at the limit of its capacity," Steinmeier said in an interview with Italian Newspaper Corriere della Sera, pointing out that Germany had received a third of all EU asylum requests in the first half of 2023.

The president acknowledged that both Italy and Germany had "heavy loads to bear" and called for a "fair distribution" of migratory burdens within Europe.

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But, instead of making legal immigration easy and productive, we pay companies like Frontex, who violate human rights, to keep everyone out. Human trafficking is only a business because we make it next to impossible for refugees to immigrate legally.

Illegal is the wrong adjective for asylum seekers, because the right of asylum explicitly states, that you do not have to do anything before arriving in the EU. There is no way of seeking asylum illegally.

Refugees which only exist because "first world countries" fouled up their homelands through political and industrial fuckery and made them unliveable.