As migrants continue to drown in the Mediterranean, Germany steps up efforts to manage an unprecedented number of asylum seekers



BERLIN: -- Two migrants lost their lives on Monday in when a boat carrying more than a hundred people ran into trouble in the Mediterranean.

They had been among a group trying to get to Italy, the rest of whom were rescued and taken to Tripoli by the Libyan navy.

Libya has become a hub for migrants attempting to get to Europe with people often paying thousands of dollars to smugglers to secure a place on boats that are sometimes dangerously unfit for the voyage.

Even if they do make it they could end up in a place like Bamberg in Northern Bavaria. It’s a camp built by the Germans to house, and ultimately deport, migrants who are unlikely to be granted asylum.

“People know that a fast, constitutionally legal process awaits them and of course that is depressing for them,” said Stefan Krug, Head of the Department of Asylum in Upper Franconia. “On the other hand they know that they will be treated rationally here and considering the situation the mood is quite good.”

Officials say that faced with an unprecedented number of migrants there is growing anxiety among some sections of German society, and that’s why the deportation of failed asylum seekers has been stepped up.

At the same time Germany has been praised for its handling of a difficult situation and for taking in such a large number of people fleeing from war and economic hardship.

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Why are they trying to leave Libya? On paper it looks to be an Islamic paradise, is it possible these people are never happy, and never will be happy wherever they are? I lay the blame squarely at the feet of the cult they are so obsessed with, and leads them(and all around them) to nothing but misery.

If I were Germany's leader, I would buy an island somewhere in Terra Del Fuego or somewhere else just as far away, and use that to temporarily resettle the Islamists. This is so they can not pollute the minds and countries of Atheists and infidels. With no chance of converting kaffirs they will soon be gagging to get back to their bronze age desert utopias.

Are you aware that there's war in Libya too?

Will the German government be making the study of the Koran mandatory soon.?

you will see what will happen when hundred of boats will arrive in Italy all filled with thousand of Isis guys.

better to stay in Thailand.

Why are European Police wearing jackets with POLICE written in Arabic????

They can send them all to Canada.The liberal government just got elected and are bringing in 25000 by the end of February and a total of 50000 by the end of 2016.All with immediate permanent residency and entitlement to everything that citizen's get.

Why are European Police wearing jackets with POLICE written in Arabic????

probably because 1 in 5 of these colonists has already committed serious crime(mainly violent sex crimes) since arriving in Europe. That would be approx 200k crimes the cream of 2015 managed to do. Prisons are becoming no-go zones for the native caucasian crims that habitually favor white collar crime. No wonder the police have their name written in arabic is it?

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