migrants coming from non-war torn countries. Why would your governments give those people a free ride in the first place?

The economic refugees forgot to tell the people interviewing them their real purpose for coming, and no one had the time to do a lie detector test on 800,000 people, or find enough Arabic-speakers to administer the tests. Germany's bad.

then post what you have.

Even if it's in Burushaski, something is better for those who know the language than nothing. (No, I don't know Burushaski. It's my default "here's a language that probably nobody on DU knows" language. Like Soqotri or Divehi.)

Let's not thank the German government for what is, indeed, a small favor in censoring these reports.

If people who lie for the purposes of what amounts of "I want a better lifestyle" are allowed in, how about those who are indeed motivated by something inspiring a bit more zeal. Although I give them credit--if there's something that elicits zeal on the part of Westerners, it's typically wanting more money and nicer homes.

You should get mad if

• Syrian refugees came to Europe,
  
• got refugee protected status on claims that their homeland is a dangerous place, and then
  
• went right back to Syria for a cozy relaxing vacation, perhaps by the poolside with mojitos & a tray of nachos

• Syrian refugees are fleeing a genuinely horrific situation, as documented in numerous photos & news reports,
  
• When they fled in panic, they left many friends & family behind and dozens of untied loose ends
  
• Once some got refugee protected status they went back to look after family affairs, protect their neighbors or belongings, or looked for lost family members who got forgotten in the chaotic shuffle of fleeing a brutal warzone, and
  
• now some rightwing propagandists are, once again, stirring up bullshit resentments against the foreign refugees they've been shown to hate in the past

Prhaps when the anger subsides, the OP will look at the issue more objectfully and find a little compassion for those who have lost everything.

It has everything to do with those who have lost little or nothing, and are taking advantage of limited resources we here in Germany have offered to those who REALLY have lost everything. If you are looking at violent death upon returning to your home country, then that is the last place you would go back to on a vacation paid for by money you would otherwise use for clothing your family.

This was North Africa. Maghreb, not Levant.

manage to get super angry over this. Things happen, people take advantage. I'm sure it's a super small percentage so ultimately it's probably not a huge deal.

It both gives fuel to far right movements that otherwise wouldn't have a leg to stand on, and it gives justification for denying help to people in desperate need of it by giving those who want no refugees at all something to point to.

In THIS particular case, it gives an irrefutable argument to those who wish to deny help to all by letting them cite a specific incident with which they can lump the rest into the same basket. The disservice done by the cynical cheaters has an effect far greater than just one negative headline, run once, ranted about, and then forgotten. That is why the Swiss response did far greater good than the German inaction. I spend most of my year here in Central Europe and speak most language spoken here. I hear the vox populi, not just the headlines read on the evening news.

it confirms for some that the right wing has a point. It's like when a story pops up about welfare fraud. I just don't think we can ever fully stop frauds from slipping through.

I do concede your point though that Germany should have taken action similar to Switzerland. It is better optics for sure.

But it would also have cut off the air supply of the far right, instead of watering their weed garden.