I can see how they would feel that way and I think part of the problem would be exactly that - they will not be able to assimilate ever. > taking over Culture

I can see how they would feel that way and I think part of the problem would be exactly that - they will not be able to assimilate ever. > taking over Culture. Dilution of values. Fundamentalism which is so entrenched the religion (I suspect, high 90s % of strongly religious demographics, primarily Islam). Long term, I see even worse divergence of national unity - these people are now speaking the language, but their own German dialect, their kids are raising with local kids, etc. I personally do not see Germans share most of middle-eastern/islamic values. You cannot forcefully assimilate 2 different polarizing cultures, it is a time bomb of cultural divide. No matter how humanitarian your views are, there is no going away from this fact. I think the best solution is to provide aid - military, financial, food/medicine to these impoverished countries instead of taking refugees. Edit: I can't respond to your comment below, but I basically have fundamental disagreement about aligning Holocaust with Syrian refugee crisis. You're trying to shoehorn a narrative from the perspective of the lawmakers, I am asking simple questions about assimilation and integration. We're talking past each other? Anyways, I learned a few things from your opinions about the history of these archaic refugee laws. IMO they should be with the neighbors, not transcontinental. Thanks for the discussion.