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Europe’s Asylum Catastrophe: A Warning America Cannot Ignore

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An asylum seeker plowed his car into a crowd in Munich, Germany this week (DW News/Youtube)

It happened again.

Another city, another massacre, another Western government paralyzed by its own self-inflicted crisis.

This week, the streets of Munich ran red as yet another so-called refugee — a 24-year-old Afghan asylum seeker who should have been deported years ago — plowed his car into innocent civilians, injuring 28 people in a horrific act of terror.

Future generations will ask: Why didn’t we stop this when we had the chance?

But let’s be brutally honest: This attack was only successful because of a suicidal immigration policy that Europe refuses to fix.

And make no mistake — America is next.

Europe’s Failure is America’s Future

This is not a “tragedy.” Tragedies are unpredictable, unavoidable acts of fate.

Munich was neither.

Munich was the direct result of a catastrophic, decade-long policy failure — one that began when Angela Merkel made the fateful decision to throw open Germany’s doors to a tidal wave of asylum seekers, unvetted Special Interest Aliens (SIAs), and undocumented migrants.

Merkel’s Open Borders Policy: A Catastrophic Gamble

In 2015, at the height of the Syrian civil war and the collapse of the Islamic State’s territorial hold, Europe faced an unprecedented migrant crisis. In response, Merkel announced a radical policy shift, declaring:

“We can do this” (“Wir schaffen das”).

With those words, Germany suspended the Dublin Regulation (which required asylum seekers to apply for protection in the first EU country they entered), allowing over 1.2 million migrants to flood into Germany in just two years. The vast majority — over 65 percent — were young men from Middle Eastern, North African, and South Asian nations, not the vulnerable women and children often portrayed by the media.

  • 2015: Merkel’s government allowed nearly 900,000 migrants into Germany.
  • 2016: Another 280,000 arrivals
  • 2017-Present: While the initial wave slowed, hundreds of thousands continued to arrive annually, either through new asylum claims or by staying illegally after rejected claims.

By 2020, over 2 million migrants from the Middle East and Africa had settled in Germany, fundamentally reshaping the country’s demographics. Many lacked documentation, making proper vetting impossible. German intelligence agencies later admitted that at least 5,000 ISIS-affiliated fighters entered Europe among these asylum seekers — many of whom would go on to commit acts of terror.

The consequences of Merkel’s decision were immediate and devastating:

  • 2015-2016: A wave of sexual assaults by migrant gangs, culminating in the infamous Cologne New Year’s Eve attacks, where over 1,200 women were assaulted by coordinated mobs of mostly North African men.
  • 2016: The Berlin Christmas Market attack, where a failed Tunisian asylum seeker killed 12 people and injured 56 in a truck rampage.
  • 2017: Suicide bombing at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, UK, by a Libyan asylum seeker who had freely traveled across Europe.
  • 2019-2023: Sharp rises in violent crime, with migrants disproportionately responsible for over 50 percent of gang rapes in Germany despite being less than 10 percent of the population.

Instead of reversing course, European leaders doubled down — refusing to deport criminals, granting asylum to unverified individuals, and punishing dissenters who questioned the wisdom of these policies.

Now, in 2025, the crisis has escalated beyond control.

Germany, once the economic powerhouse of Europe, now sees its cities fragmented by no-go zones, its social services overwhelmed, and its security agencies scrambling to contain a crisis of their own making.

And yet, our leaders in America are making the exact same mistakes.

At this very moment, tens of thousands of SIAs are crossing into the U.S., many using the exact same asylum loopholes that have turned Germany into an open-air crime scene.

They vanish into the system. They are given hearings years into the future — which most never show up for.

And when their asylum claims are inevitably denied?

They stay anyway.

Just like the Munich attacker. Just like the Magdeburg terrorist, who launched an assault on a Christmas market weeks ago, wounding dozens.

Two terrorist attacks. Two months apart.

Both from rejected asylum seekers who should have been expelled immediately.

How many more Munichs will it take before the West wakes up?

Europe and the West’s Suicide Pact

Europe’s leaders refuse to fix this crisis because to do so would mean admitting the most dangerous truth of all:

Mass migration — without proper vetting — destroys nations.

For years, the ruling class, the media elite, and the open-borders lobby have lied to the public.

They told us migration was a moral duty. That vetting was “racist.” That no amount of terrorism, crime, or cultural upheaval could ever justify closing the floodgates.

And so, they allowed millions of unknown, undocumented, and untraceable individuals into their countries — individuals whose ideologies, backgrounds, and intentions were never properly scrutinized.

And now?

The West is paying the price.

Germany is imploding under the weight of its own self-inflicted crisis. France is a powder keg.
The UK is experiencing record-high crime.  Sweden — once the safest country in Europe — now has a bombing epidemic. This is not the future America should be racing toward.

The Cost of Cowardice

Let me be absolutely clear: If we fail to act, there will be an American Munich. Maybe it will happen in Times Square.
 Maybe on the National Mall.  Maybe at Disneyland, at a Super Bowl, in a shopping mall, or outside a synagogue.

But it will happen.

And when it does, the politicians, activists, and media elites who pushed for open borders will be nowhere to be found. They won’t be the ones grieving their families.  They won’t be the ones burying their children.

That burden will fall on the American people — the very people they betrayed.

History Will Judge America

Future generations will ask: Why didn’t we stop this when we had the chance? Munich was a warning. Magdeburg was a warning. The migrant crime waves sweeping Europe are warnings. We can either heed them now — or prepare to suffer their consequences on our own soil.

America, the choice is yours. But time is running out. The time to act is NOW.

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