What I read is that Merkel is now proposing to change the law, but it was still three years minimum tariff to get your application rejected, and only if you're not in danger if sent back.
In practice that means nobody will get an application rejected that wouldn't be rejected anyway.
Also, you have a pitiful number of Police, we would have been able to deploy double that and virtually no cops get New Year's Day off because they're needed to Police!
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