INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
US President Donald Trump said migrants were violently changing Europe's culture
(File)Washington: US President Donald Trump on Monday blamed migrants in Europe for what he inaccurately
described as a rise in crime in Germany and for violently changing the culture, adding that what was happening with immigration there
presented a similar threats to the United States."The people of Germany are turning against their leadership as migration is rocking the
already tenuous Berlin coalition
Crime in Germany is way up
Big mistake made all over Europe in allowing millions of people in who have so strongly and violently changed their culture!" Trump, said in
a tweet.Trump's administration is facing strong criticism from rights activists, Democrats and some in his own Republican Party for
separating children from their parents at the U.S.-Mexican border, a policy aimed at deterring illegal immigration.Crime has fallen off
dramatically in Germany, with the country's internal ministry reporting last month that criminal offenses in Germany totaled 5.76 million in
2017, the lowest number since 1992, leading to the lowest crime rate for the country in more than 30 years.Merkel's open-door migrant policy
is widely blamed for the rise of the right-wing AfD, now the main opposition party in Germany's federal parliament
More than 1.6 million migrants, mostly Muslims fleeing wars in the Middle East, have arrived in Germany since 2014.© Thomson Reuters
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