It was a few days before Christmas, as the Green party leader Anna Lena Baerbock put a sign. Rejected asylum seekers who have repeatedly committed criminal offences, should faster be deported, and requested the Chairman of a party that had a long life with the reputation of being the naïve openness blind to the problems of immigration. Baerbock chose a hard language. “Delinquent asylum seekers, who do not accept our legal order and enforceable required to leave the country, should be a priority for deportation,” she said.

We no longer want to stand on the edge, but also the sense of a broad middle of take into account; we not only dream more of a multi-ethnic society, but also a response to the need to protect of many people – as in, for example, the much-noted Signal sent to Baerbock at the time in the world was. The fit to the claim of a party to the attack with a new management beyond the boundaries of one’s own milieu, and to new strata of voters to be attractive, to grow more, or at least strongly want to stay. As the sharpest opponent of the AfD, you want to be perceived. Both acts, however, only be credible if the claim by Act is redeemed.

On Friday, the new promise of the Green was put to the test, because in the Bundestag, the classification of the three Maghreb States and of Georgia as a safe country of origin on the agenda. Even before the debate started, founded Baerbock, why the eco-with no will vote: if It were a constitutionally highly questionable “symbol in the debate, which goes to the actual problems over”.

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The AfD, you dig out especially in the water, the state is also in the question of refugees as capable of action, by sending more and more rejected asylum seekers without tolerance in their country of origin than it is today. The Greens want to talk about hard and soft soft decide. You want to wash the fur without getting wet. This art piece does not succeed but once, the acclaimed Duo Baerbock and Habeck.