Merkel, Trudeau meddle in US immigration policy
German Chancellor Angela Merkel tore into President Donald Trump over his travel ban on Muslims from terrorism hotbeds.
Published: January 30, 2017, 8:49 am
Merkel’s spokesman Steffen Seibert said on Sunday that Merkel told Trump during a telephone conversation that the Geneva Conventions require the international community to take in war refugees, while Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told immigrants rejected by US: Canada will take you.
“Terrorism does not justify putting people of a specific background or faith under general suspicion,” he quoted Merkel as saying. Seibert did however not elaborate on the Berlin and other terror attacks executed by immigrants.
Seibert said the German government deeply regrets the US travel ban, and would “represent [the interests of immigrants] if needed” in challenging the Trump administration.
The German and Dutch foreign ministers issued an angry joint statement on Sunday saying they were “pressing US authorities” to determine what the order meant for their dual nationals.
But images from the Dutch news agency ANP showed that only a few demonstrators were worried about Trump’s order at Schipol, the airport near Amsterdam. The few gathered at Schipol were chanting: “No borders, no nation, no deportation!”
“We are determined to protect the rights of our citizens and will take rapid action within the European Union about the steps that are now needed,” Germany’s Sigmar Gabriel and his Dutch counterpart Bert Koenders declared.
Merkel’s direct meddling in US politics was the first sign of open discord between herself and Trump. Merkel had highlighted their “common interests” in strengthening NATO and combating Islamist militancy in a joint statement after a phone call to Trump just days ago, but seemed to be altering her course.
Thomas Oppermann, a coalition partner in Merkel’s government, called Trump’s order “inhumane and foolhardy” and said it would result in significant damage to the US economy.
“The order contradicts everything that makes up the United States’ good reputation as a country of immigration,” he told Die Welt newspaper. “No one should be discriminated against because of their religious beliefs.”
Omid Nouripour, a Green party lawmaker who is vice-chair of the German-American parliamentary group and a German-Iranian dual national, said the new US rule was a “dirty symbolic gesture that would hurt hundreds of thousands of people”.
“The German government must stand up for the over 100,000 German citizens who are affected by the order,” Nouripour told Reuters. He said Trump had not included Saudi Arabia.
Dieter Janecek, economic spokesman for the Greens in parliament, said Germany should consider a travel ban on Trump and his senior adviser Stephen Bannon unless the order was rescinded. Trump is set to attend the a meeting of the Group of 20 industrialized nations in Hamburg in July.
A German “legal expert”Jonathan Hafetz told Deutsche Welle in alluding to the globalist protests, “the results on the ground makes the United States look like a banana republic”. Hafetz did however not comment on the state of the countries from which many of these immigrants hail.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan – the first Muslim mayor of a major western city – has meanwhile demanded Trump’s state visit to the UK be cancelled.
He told Sky News: “I am quite clear, this ban is cruel, this ban is shameful, while this ban is in place we should not be rolling out the red carpet for President Trump.
“I don’t think he should be coming on a state visit while the ban is in place, I couldn’t be clearer.”
He said the ban “flies in the face of the values” the US was built on.
Justin Trudeau tweeted on Saturday: “To those fleeing persecution, terror & war, Canadians will welcome you, regardless of your faith. Diversity is our strength #WelcomeToCanada”. He added that he would talk to Trump about the “success” of Canada’s refugee policy.
Trudeau oversaw the arrival of more than 39 000 Syrian refugees soon after he was elected. On Sunday night Quebec City Police say several people are dead after shots were fired inside a Quebec City mosque.
Multiple people are also feared wounded in the terrorist attack, according to CBC’s French-language service Radio-Canada.
When Obama issued similar travel bans in 2011, there were no protests, meddling or condemnations.
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