IMMIGRATION thread

[Don Corleone]

This is terribly unfortunate and distressing. On the one hand, even if the numbers of perpetrators approached 10,000, that would be a tiny fraction of the 1M refugees that Germany accepted in 2015, forget the even greater numbers of men of Arabic and North African descent (those on visa, those naturalized, and even those native born). Sadly, this will generate a backlash of violence against all the super-majority of peaceful refugees and others just looking for a better life.

That being said, the crime itself is intolerable. Sweeping it under the rug in the hopes of avoiding offense to the arabic/NA community at large or denying the common origin of the attacks to the larger general public is going to undermine confidence and healthy respect in necessary authority.

I would advise the German government that they go the other way on this. In a very high profile fashion, invite the enclave community leaders to very publicly participate in a stern, widespread and unflinching disciplinary response. Those who can be proven to have participated should be either jailed (citizens) or deported (refugees or documented/undocumented immigrants).

Sure, there may be some howls from the enclave communities, but this is an issue that's going on across racial and religoius lines. The old lie of "well, boys will be boys" must be stamped out forever. I personally don't care if my one of my daughters got groped by a Syrian refugee who's pissed that he's unemployed and living on handouts or a navy pilot who's drunk and letting off some steam... either way I want the man held accountable to the fullest extent of the law.

We don't like to admit it, but we live in a rape culture. This is just one more facet of it. We shouldn't tolerate it from new immigrants and refugees, but we shouldn't tolerate from those who've been here for a while either.