anti immigrant alternative to germany policy is the only winner in the current government crisis is bad news for chance of a makeover and bad news for the team you. look at it let me begin with you we ve seen this clash of titans here in german politics these last couple of weeks what s it all been about and where does it leave us it s all been about power it s about been positioning and it s a been vote impatiens america has been in power for almost thirteen years and there s a backlog of young men who some seem to think that they are best placed to replace her and we have young one young man well not so and fifty three down and very moccasin he is going to lecture coming up in october and he thinks on this he gives the american a whack the voters are going to give him a whack in october on the migration quest for three years they ve been sort of the conservatives down to very few they ve been cow towing to america and now they need to go back even though the migration present really
a crisis and what everybody outside germany would would would say yes it is it s the big crisis in germany interest in terms of numbers if you if you are worried about five or ten or twenty people coming across and seeking asylum a very every day with an is a crisis around europe it is a crisis but compared to where we were inches in fifteen in terms of pure numbers it isn t a crisis the notion that it just sort of two weeks ago suddenly became a crisis again i think that was an artificial crisis and what we saw was the c.s.u. the summer holidays are coming up this is the last chance to really get people s attention before the autumn and give them the sense that we are tough we have started to marco so i think what we saw was just politics that it has the is an unresolved migration crisis is true and that it s gotten the rest of your talking about or perhaps was an unintended positive outcome the see if you will came this is what we intended all along it s not about power it s about we
prevailed. this has been going on for year, it s obviously been exacerbated in recent years with the quote unquote migrant crisis which let s be clear, isn t a crisis. you mentioned in the introduction germany took more than a million. but that s not the situation right now. in germany, right now, asylum applications are at a five-year low compared to 2015, 2014 and even 2013. in italy they re low. number coming into europe from places like syria is at a low. this is not some kind of crisis that s going on. this is far right wing politics across europe and here in the united states manufacturing prying grant crises. let s address this. we talked yesterday about how the trump administration carries on about this ms-13 infestation and i delivered the numbers on that, 180 were ms 13 members.
due to it s really not agreeing to the council conclusions nominee there s a short press conference on other subjects and then the migration debate so the biggest issue tonight that it s not now taking place tomorrow but then the spokesperson of the council said leaders still have all night to agree on that subject and finally to come to conclusions now there was another diplomat who told me well of course there s also tactics it s a it s a brand new government that wants to start some dust and others said well we can also be happy without final conclusions as long as we make some progress on the issue of migration and georg you know we heard from the european council today that the you know the number of illegal in trees into the european union since two thousand and fifteen has fallen by ninety six percent so in terms of numbers there isn t a crisis right now when it comes to illegal migration and yet at this summit it is
getting worse. listen to the governor. nobody s doing any of these children the slightest favor by delaying a rapid return to their countries of origin which in many cases is not mexico. allowing them to remain here will only encourage the next group of individuals to undertake this very, very dangerous and life-they thening journey and life-threatening journey. and those who come must be sent back to demonstrate in no uncertain terms that risking your lives on the top of those trains and the ways that they are coming here, it s not worth that. what is the issue here? they re coming on tops of trains from honduras, el salvador, quawt mall low. not really coming from mexico. they are being ferried through crisis. we heard nancy pelosi say this isn t a crisis, it is