Migrants in Europe

Angela Merkel was Chancellor of Germany for 16 years and made two crucial mistakes, which came back later to haunt the government. After the accident at Fukushima, Japan, she decided to shut down all 17 of Germany’s nuclear power plants and that was completed by 2023. When Russia invaded the Ukraine, Germany stopped buying oil and natural gas from Russia and must now restart their old coal plants and buy natural gas from the US at a higher cost. Next in 2015 she opened the doors to migrants from mostly Eastern European and Muslim countries. In the first year 1 million came in, which based on population, would be like 6 million in the US. Two years ago, Germany began to deport many if not most of these migrants. They first closed the border, by allowing the police to use stop and search methods to turn back people at the border. Fast tracked the process and used private planes to deport people to two countries who agreed to take them. Then they changed the immigration laws to accept people based on merit meaning what could they bring to help the economy. These procedures are being followed by other European countries who have been experiencing problems with migrants.