Merkel puts The Donald over her knee for refugee ban

And Canada’s hunky hipster PM isn’t quite as cuddly as he seems on migration

World leaders shaking their heads at US President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, The New York Times, Sunday:

Reflecting mounting European anger and astonishment at President Trump, several countries on Sunday rejected — sometimes in blunt terms — his ban on all refugees and the citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries entering the United States.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel gives Trump a human rights lecture, Der Spiegel, Sunday:

Merkel regretted the decision of the US president and expressed this attitude also in the telephone call with Trump.

The Geneva Convention on Refugees calls on the international community to include war refugees on humanitarian grounds. “All signatory states are committed to it, the Chancellor had explained this policy to the US President in yesterday’s telephone conversation,” said (the Chancellor’s spokesman Steffen) Seibert.

Merkel knows all about flouting human rights to secure borders. The Telegraph, October 5, 2016:

Angela Merkel is facing a backlash following the collapse of a criminal case her government authorised against one of Germany’s most popular comedians for insulting the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Mr (Jan) Bohmermann faced up to five years in prison under the lese-majesty law, which prohibits insulting a foreign head of state.

Prosecutions require the approval of the German government, and Ms Merkel was accused of seeking to appease the authoritarian Mr Erdogan and safeguard the EU’s controversial migrant deal with Turkey when her government made the surprise decision to let the case go ahead.

She was a big fan of US border control before Trump got elected, Bild and Business Insider, September 2, 2016:

On the European level, we should start working on an electronic entry control system modelled on the US system. This means that — regardless of whether they travel visa-free or not — anyone who enters a European country and who leaves again is registered, so that you know exactly who has not left and is still somewhere in the Schengen Area.

Regrets, Frau has a few, Financial Times, September 19, 2016:

“If I could, I would rewind time by many, many years so that I could better prepare myself and the whole government and all those in positions of responsibility for the situation that caught us unprepared in the late summer of 2015,” Ms Merkel said.

Canadian PM Justin Trudeau loves the refugees, Twitter, Sunday:

To those fleeing persecution, terror & war, Canadians will welcome you, regardless of your faith. Diversity is our strength #WelcomeToCanada

As long as there’s not too many of them, The Toronto Star, December 24, 2016:

The (Canadian) federal government will cap new applications for private sponsorship of Syrian and Iraqi refugees at 1000 in 2017.

There wasn’t much global outcry when this anti-migrant fascist was president, Bill Clinton, State of the Union Address, January 24, 1995:

All Americans not only in the states most heavily affected but in every place in this country, are rightly disturbed by the large numbers of illegal aliens entering our country. The jobs they hold might otherwise be held by citizens or legal immigrants. The public services they use impose burdens on our taxpayers.