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[quote=Anonymous]When Germany decides it's time to emulate Trump re: deportations and illegal immigration, you know he's doing something right.

On Monday, the newly inaugurated President Trump had signed a series of executive orders addressing the migration crisis. That bold move resonated in Germany. Mr. Merz spent a night weighing his options, then stepped before the press on Thursday morning and delivered remarks unlike anything ever heard from a conservative German leader. He spoke of the “completely unrestrained brutality in Germany” and the “wreckage of a decade-long misguided immigration policy”—a scathing indictment of Angela Merkel’s legacy.

Then came words that party insiders say he never would have uttered without Mr. Trump’s inspiration: “If elected chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, on the first day of my term, I will instruct the Federal Ministry of the Interior, using the chancellor’s directive authority, to permanently control Germany’s borders with all of our neighbors and to categorically reject all attempts at illegal entry.”

Opinion polls confirmed that the risk had paid off. Sixty-six percent of Germans supported his proposal to turn back migrants at the border, including 56% of voters from the center-left Social Democratic Party of Chancellor Olaf Scholz.

Mr. Trump’s method, it seems, has found fertile ground in Germany. Germans have observed his actions with a mix of astonishment and fascination and asked themselves: Is he really as bad as we were told? Mr. Trump’s approach to addressing long-standing issues reshaped his image in Germany.

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-trump-effect-may-solve-germanys-migrant-crisis-europe-merz-b2cda5fc?st=SohM6v&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink[/quote]

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