OPINION:
Eight angry male migrants between the ages of 18 and 28 went on a rampage at their refugee center in Rees-Halpern, Germany, trashing their temporary home and taking to the walls and properties with iron bars. Why?
They were upset because their phone service wasn’t up to par.
You think this is the type of stuff President Donald Trump is trying to stop from happening here with his executive crackdowns on the border and his additional scrutiny of refugees?
Indeed.
The Daily Mail captured the scene, reporting how the melee rose to such levels of intensity a police officer was severely injured and had to be transported for medical treatment.
The fact the refugees, Muslims from Togo and Ghana, were drunk doesn’t pardon the behavior. The men only arrived at the asylum center a day earlier. Within hours, they were already complaining about the poor mobile phone reception within the building.
And get this: Two dozen police actually had to respond to the outbreak. Two dozen armed police, actually.
“[The police] had to respond to emergency calls from staff at the center as the men … laid waste to furniture, windows, doors and fittings,” the Daily Mail reported. “They even tried to penetrate the security room where guards were forced to barricade themselves in for their own safety.”
This isn’t an anomaly.
Germany, since opening doors to refugees from Iraq, Syria and other mostly Muslim nations, has seen scores of uprisings at the facilities used to house the newcomers. And that doesn’t even include the crimes committed by migrants outside of the asylum centers.
In one particularly blunt headline from December, the Los Angeles Times put it best: “Arrest of refugee in rape and slaying in Germany threatens Merkel’s immigration policy.”
Chancellor Angela Merkel has been fighting for political air in recent months, as citizens — no doubt watching the Islamic terror that’s left France in a heightened state of alert, to put it mildly, —have demanded scale-backs to her open door policy for migrants. It’s not clear that she’s listening.
Just this January, Merkel actually reached across the ocean to meddle in American politics and chide Trump for failing to roll out the red carpet for migrants.
Merkel’s spokesman, Steffen Seibert, said in a statement posted on Twitter after a telephone call between the chancellor and Trump: “The chancellor regrets the entry ban imposed by the U.S. government on refugees and nationals from certain countries. She is convinced that even the necessarily resolve battle against terrorism does not justify placing people from a certain origin or belief under general suspicion.”
Well, Trump would disagree. Know who else would?
A nation of American citizens who are watching the many, many instances of Islamic-tied violence and terror at hot spots like Germany, France and yes, even Sweden, in recent times and fear a similar cancer growing here. And what did these citizens do to abate their fears?
In part, voted for Trump.
The understated is this: The left may clamor for open borders, compassion for refugees, opposition to Trump’s immigration and migrants policies, and so forth. But the American people, the ones who live outside the gated, pampered communities of the political elite in Washington, D.C., Berlin and other areas of government power, stand firmly by a president who can protect them.
They don’t care so much for political pandering and political correctness as for safe homes, crime-free communities and calm neighborhoods where their children can freely play. And on that count, it’s Trump, not Merkel, not the far-left holding positions of authority, who can better provide.
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