It was a mistake for Germany to take in 1million migrants.

1. Reasons for migrating She does not object to what I said, but let’s look at her source and what she said. First of all, it is important to note that Syria is not the only country of origin that legitimizes asylum status. Secondly, the numbers she states represent that: 21% are from Syria, but only 60% are alleged to be economic refugees. Obviously that is just 81%. What are the other 19% supposed to be? Neither legitimate nor economic refugees? These are the top three origin countries: Syria: 362,775Afghanistan: 178,230Iraq: 121,535 The top three countries alone make up 662,540 out of 1255,640 refugees. That is already 52,7%, not 40%.Pro blatantly misrepresents the data. 2. Education “Germany will have to take money and resources away from German school kids to give to migrants.” I had to read this twice. Is this actually supposed to be an argument? Countless people in non-industrial countries have to suffer daily so that we can sustain our lifestyle, but can’t spend a minuscule amount on people from less wealthy countries? “Do you want this to happen?” No, I don’t exactly want this to happen, but politics is not just about what you want to do and especially when such a humanitarian crisis is at hand, politics requires you to not only do what has the immediately best effect for the native population. We don’t even know what these changes will look like, but to just assume it is somehow going to ruin Germany is ridiculous. 3. Culture She misses the point of what I said entirely. I never claimed my experience to be superior to that of anyone else here. Nor did use it as an argument. I said my testimony is just as good as someone else’s to illustrate how ridiculous it is to rely to anecdotes.I don’t argue Germany was right to take over a million refugees because my personal experience was good with them. I do argue that all of her points involving such anecdotes are moot. Concerning German culture, she merely asserts that it, whatever it is, is going to change, presumably in a bad way of some sort. Well, then surely she is able to identify some part of my culture that will be lost. Stereotypes like Beer and pretzels hardly qualify as culture and values like the inviolability of human dignity hardly qualify as German culture. These are truths not only Germans take to be self-evident. I take this point very seriously, I really do, because it affects me personally. But as a German satirist once said, Germans are “proud to not be proud” of being German and as such I entirely fail to see what characteristic of the German lifestyle would be lost.Sure some cultures in the middle east are quite sexist for example, but to think German culture would suddenly become extremely sexist because of that is quite ridiculous and I won’t believe it until I see any figures. 4. Standards of living My opponent does not respond to my point, nor does she justify hers in any way. All she does is to reassert what she said in the first round. 5. Crime Last round I presented the exact same figures myself and I “did the math”. The rise in crime is, as I’ve said, not at all “dramatic” once you realize refugees committed only 78% more crimes while their number increased by 440%. She talks about crime rates, but she never presented a crime rate. I did and to put it in the words of Uld Kuech, head of the CID Braunschweig, suspecting a great deal of refugees to be rapists and such is “absolute nonsense” (1) (my translation). Most importantly, it is against the law to revoke asylum status based on criminality (2). 6. Terrorism There have been multiple attempted terrorist attacks in Germany, yet none of them succeeded. In the entire history of mankind not a single German citizen died on German ground because of an Islamist attack. A second Paris would be horrible, but to deny a peaceful life to more than a million people, real humans, because of an unjustified and fringe probability is nothing more than ridiculous. Yes, this is worth the “risk” any time. Unless she delivers some numbers I don’t see the point in responding in any greater detail. Sources (1) http://www.spiegel.de... (2) ibid