Europe likes to pretend that all of their nations are above the U.S. But now they had to hand it to Donald Trump.
And President Trump was totally vindicated after a European leader implemented his agenda.
Germany’s Bold Move: Deportations to Syria Resume
In a decisive victory for common-sense border security, Chancellor Friedrich Merz announced that Germany will immediately restart deporting Syrian migrants, cutting through days of bureaucratic fog from his Berlin administration. This long-overdue policy shift echoes the tough immigration stance championed by leaders like President Trump, who has long warned that unchecked migration invites chaos.
“The civil war in Syria is over. There are now absolutely no grounds for asylum in Germany, and therefore we can begin deportations,” Chancellor Merz said on Monday evening, according to Die Welt.
Merz pledged to prioritize voluntary returns but delivered a firm warning: “And those who then refuse to return from Germany, we can, of course, deport them in the near future.”
Ending the Merkel Era of Open Borders
For years, the establishment’s reckless open-borders experiment—kickstarted by Angela Merkel’s 2015 decision to fling Europe’s gates wide open—flooded Germany with nearly a million Syrians, straining resources and eroding public safety. As Trump has repeatedly pointed out, such policies reward illegal entry while punishing law-abiding citizens.
The backlash has been fierce and justified: Syrian asylum seekers have been linked to horrific attacks, including last year’s mass stabbing at a Solingen “diversity festival” that claimed three lives and wounded six. Official stats lay bare the crisis—Syrians are over five times more likely to be crime suspects than native Germans, clocking in at 10,587 suspects per 100,000 versus just 1,879 for Germans.
With public outrage fueling the surge of the anti-mass migration AfD party, Merz is finally acting, vowing removals even to hotspots like Afghanistan and Syria. Critics of endless migration hail this as a Trump-style pivot toward putting Germans first.
Coalition Chaos Undermines Strong Leadership
Yet, predictably, fractures are exploding within Merz’s shaky neoliberal-leftist coalition—cobbled together by snubbing the popular AfD in favor of the election-losing Social Democrats. Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul, fresh from a Syria trip, poured cold water on the plan, insisting returns would be “very limited” due to wartime infrastructure damage and that it would be “difficult to restore a life of dignity there” for deportees.
Wadephul scrambled Tuesday to align with Merz, promising to get “actively involved” in booting criminals and terrorists first. But the flip-flopping has infuriated even CDU insiders.
One foreign policy expert quoted by Die Welt as saying: “The minister expresses himself imprecisely, there’s a lot of commotion, then nothing happens for several days, and there’s no other plan than to wait it out.”
Another blasted the Chancellor for failing to enforce unity: “Merz is responsible for crafting a coherent message for his government, but nothing is happening. And when the damage is done, everyone remains silent, including the Chancellor.”
Green Party Bundestag leader Katharina Dröge added: “Whenever the Foreign Minister speaks out, it’s questioned by his own party members.”
As Trump has proven, strong borders require unwavering resolve—Germany’s waffling coalition risks squandering this chance to reclaim control.
