Some Nazis hunt random foreigners in Chemnitz, Germany

[President Johnson]

Disgraceful, just like the killing of the 35-year old man. Disgraceful is also the call by Markus Frohmeier (member of the Bundestag, AfD) for vigilantism. Someone like this has no business being in a legislature because he has shown once again his zero respect for the rule of law.

[President Johnson]

Correction: Merkel overburdened neo-Nazis beyond their point of tolerance of foreigners. That is an extremely low threshold, and policy cannot be subjugated to the preferences of Nazis.

Nobody is saying the government should follow the preferences of Nazis. However, it is observable that it has helped contribute to the rise of Neo-Nazis which is creating more violence.

Reason #82983 why Merkel's immigration policy was a bad idea.

Agreed. I think Merkel did it with good intensions, but it created too much problems after all.

[President Johnson]

And tbh, I'm kind of sick of this narrative that Europeans are all inveterate xenophobes when it was the Americans who elected Donald Trump. Parties like SD, of AfD, or the UDC are polling in the teens or twenties, and those are in countries that all have higher rates of immigration than the US does.

Germany and Austria have pretty much the same percentage of it's population as immigrants compared to America (14.9-Ger, 15.2-Aus and 14.3-US) and every other country in Europe (that counts) is lower than America.  cite

granted, Mexican immigrants NEVER blow sh**t up or drive a truck through a crowd and rarely rape your little sister and also, we let them work and don't round them up into cages. (well, maybe a little)

I agree with dead0man. The immigration from Islamic countries is in large parts not comparable with Mexican immigration to the United States. Not even Muslims in America, because most of them are highly educated. The mistakes were made on both sides though.

[President Johnson]

As far as I know a part of the 2015/2016 peak can be explained by crimes related to the act of illegal immigration itself. But yes, there has been a significant increase for certain other categories of crime as well.

This. Especially bank fraud and other financial crimes.