It’s too early to say that rationality has returned to the West, but at least there is a glimmer of hope.
With the fall of Syria, the German government has taken the opportunity to reconsider its Merkel-era policy of open borders for every Syrian who wants to become a ward of the German state.
🇩🇪 Germany has suspended the processing of all new asylum applications from Syrians. pic.twitter.com/iY5JYJ9woW
— Update NEWS (@UpdateNews724) December 9, 2024
My colleague-once-removed, the inestimable Vodkapundit Stephen Green, put the developments in Germany better than I could, or at least earlier than I did:
You can get an idea of how gobsmackingly awful the Syrian Civil War was (is?) and how stupid Germany’s immigration policy is with this one simple statistic: nearly one in 20 Syrians lives in Germany. Syria’s pre-civil war population of Syria was about…
