{"id":122093,"date":"2015-09-26T08:24:45","date_gmt":"2015-09-26T08:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=122093"},"modified":"2015-09-30T09:22:07","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T09:22:07","slug":"germany-in-a-state-of-siege","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=122093","title":{"rendered":"Germany in a state of SIEGE"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sue Reid — Daily Mail Sept 26, 2015<\/h1>\n
\"Refugees

Refugees queue at the compound outside the Berlin Office of Health and Social Affairs as they wait for their registration in Berlin this week. Germany has become Europe’s top destination for asylum seekers<\/p><\/div>\n

On the busy shopping street in Giessen, a German university town twinned with Winchester, migrant Atif Zahoor tucks into a chicken dish with his brother and cousin at the curry restaurant Chillie To Go.<\/span><\/p>\n

They have left good jobs back in Karachi, Pakistan, and now want to be Europeans.<\/span><\/p>\n

In late July the three slipped into Germany with their wives and children, using illegal documents. They live together in a five-bedroom house, rented for them by Chancellor Angela Merkel\u2019s government, a 40-minute drive away from Giessen, which is home to the biggest migrants\u2019 camp in the country.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2018We paid a trafficking agent for false visas to fly here to Germany,\u2019 says 34-year-old Atif. \u2018We claimed asylum and came to Giessen camp with other migrants. Three weeks ago, because we had families, they gave us a proper home.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

Atif is well-dressed and speaks perfect English. He used to be a transport manager at Karachi airport and is from a well-to-do family. Between mouthfuls of curry, he adds: \u2018But there is violence between political gangs in Karachi. Lots of people are leaving for Europe. The trafficker decided that Germany was the place for us because it is welcoming refugees.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

Yet the raw truth is that Atif is not fleeing war or persecution. He is one of thousands of economic migrants getting into Germany as the EU\u2019s immigration crisis grows bigger each day.<\/span><\/p>\n

This week, David Cameron said Europe must send failed asylum claimants back to their own countries, while European Council president Donald Tusk has warned that millions more migrants are on their way and \u2018the policy of open doors and windows\u2019 must be scrapped.<\/span><\/p>\n

They are tough words, but it\u2019s action that is needed. As Jens Spahn, a deputy finance minister in Chancellor Merkel\u2019s government, said this week: \u2018Not everyone can stay in Germany, or in Europe. If people are coming for poverty reasons… we have to send them back.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

Mrs Merkel\u2019s offer last month to accept all refugees from war-ravaged Syria opened the floodgates. More than a million migrants are expected this year alone, the bulk of them far from genuine asylum seekers. There is now deepening disquiet in this Christian country, dotted with churches, that it is being overwhelmed by people of a different religion and culture.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Merkel was cheered when she opened the floodgates to migrants. Now, as reality sinks home, the mood is changing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":122098,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122093"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122097,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122093\/revisions\/122097"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/122098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}