Another week, another reminder that the German government’s rhetoric on migration rarely matches reality.
Friedrich Merz was clearly hoping to claw back some support from the anti-migration AfD when he said on Monday that he expected 80% of Syrians in Germany to return home within three years. The only problem is that the figure is disputed—and rapidly unravelling.
Premiered in Budapest, the Danube Institute’s first-ever documentary, Future at the Gate, presents a stark message about Europe’s migration divide, centred on its ‘gatekeepers’. It contrasts the instability and social breakdown seen in parts of the West with the security and order maintained where borders have been defended, and gates remain closed.
The Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) has launched an interactive online tool tracking knife attacks across Berlin, as the party seeks to make rising violent crime a central issue in the city’s election campaign.
The so-called “knife app” provides a detailed overview of incidents reported by police over the past 30 days, including an interactive map showing where attacks occurred, the number of injuries, and comparisons with official police crime statistics (PKS).
Remember when the left would propose a new policy and then ask, “If it saves just one life, wouldn’t it be worth it?” Their suggestions usually go only one way, benefiting some fringe group while inconveniencing the majority.
When it comes to immigration, the left is, as usual, off the rails. Once upon a time, the frequency of horrific crimes committed by illegal aliens were relatively rare. That frequency has been skyrocketing of late.
An AI-generated video from the US embassy in Mexico encouraging migrants to “self-deport” has sparked disbelief and outrage online.
The video posted this week on official embassy social media accounts depicts a group of men wearing black caps and sporting tattoos performing a kind of traditional Mexican ballad known as a corrido.
“The corrido rings out loud in your homeland; return to your roots,” the AI performer sings. “You don’t need to go far to get ahead. Listen to what you say: Mexican power lies within you.”
Translation – The corrido sounds loud in your land. Return to your roots with #CBPHome: https://usembmx.com/CBPHome2026
Living in or migrating to the U.S. illegally is a crime. #NiLoIntentes #PowerMexicano
El corrido suena fuerte en tu tierra. Regresa a tus raíces con #CBPHome: https://t.co/hZZTihzv5m
Vivir o migrar a EE.UU. de forma ilegal es un delito. #NiLoIntentes #PowerMexicano – Video Generado con IA pic.twitter.com/xweaonyKHK— Embajada de EE.UU. en México (@USEmbassyMEX) March 25, 2026
The cost of unchecked illegal immigration has come due… and includes a rising body count.
On March 22, 2026, federal agents were reduced to publicly begging Illinois politicians not to release Jose Medina-Medina, a 25-year-old Venezuelan national charged with the cold-blooded murder of 18-year-old Loyola University student Sheridan Gorman.
Medina-Medina didn’t slip through the cracks — he was ushered through them. Caught and released at the border in May 2023, he was arrested and released again in Chicago just a month later despite an active warrant. His case is the flashpoint for a 72-hour window this week, where the “delayed harvest” of an open border became a lethal reality in six different cities.
HOLY SHIT. Illinois Democrat Gov. JB Pritzker, who runs a sanctuary state that PROTECTS criminal illegals, is BLAMING TRUMP following the m*rder of Sheridan Gorman by an illegal alien.
You can't make this sh*t uppic.twitter.com/OZkgdfHkdz https://t.co/xovoJuw4s9
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) March 24, 2026
A majority of Supreme Court justices seemed sympathetic on Tuesday to the idea that the Trump administration should be able to turn away asylum seekers along the U.S.-Mexico border.
If the court backs the administration, it will allow President Trump to revive a policy first used in 2016, in which the government stopped asylum seekers from setting foot on U.S. soil, where federal law would entitle them to try to claim asylum and receive protection from persecution.
Under federal law, any noncitizen who is “physically present in the United States” or “arrives in the United States” can apply for asylum. Migrants who announce their intention to do so are then referred for an interview to determine whether they have a credible fear of persecution.
Mass immigration, driven by elites, has fractured national cohesion—only deliberate reversal, not drift, can restore sovereignty and social trust in the West.
At White Papers, our core premise is that Western nations deserve to protect their sovereignty, their political institutions, and their founding demography, and to build a future free from interference by alien cultures or hostile elites. The reality is that the nations of the West are at risk. The peoples native to Europe and those who founded Western nations like America are at risk of becoming minorities in their homelands after decades of unwanted mass immigration, facilitated by our own elite political class. In some cases, this was done for ideological reasons (globalism). In other cases, it was to drive down the cost of labor for short-term gains. The inevitable and necessary result of these anti-democratic immigration policies by the postwar liberal establishment is a growing political movement that has risen to reject the premise of continued mass immigration and, crucially, to reverse these trends.
All across the West, immigration is consistently named as one of the most pressing concerns of our time. Mass migration has transformed societies. Illegal migration has made a mockery of national citizenship. A populist backlash is upending our politics. And yet, artists and intellectuals have shied away from an honest reckoning with this. Migration is only ever portrayed positively, and the growing public discontent against it is framed as a nativist, racist or even fascist peril. Lionel Shriver’s new novel, A Better Life, dares to ask the forbidden question: what happens when migration isn’t entirely positive for the people on the receiving end?
Silicon Valley was energized by legal immigrants from all over the world who founded eBay, Google, Nvidia, SpaceX, Stripe, Sun Microsystems, Tesla, Yahoo, and a host of others.
The Greek American Elia Kazan’s 1963 film America, America is a fictional account based on the Herculean struggle of the director’s uncle to immigrate to the United States from an impoverished and hostile Turkish Anatolia.
The film summed up Americans’ traditional view of immigrants: They had risked everything for the chance to reach America, and once there, became hyperpatriotic in their gratitude for the magnanimity of their new hosts.
It is impossible to understand our approach to matters of immigration and asylum except through the lens of political theology. We are in the grip of a politicised and secularised obsession with redemption. The asylum-seeker comes to our shores and, wherever he is from, whatever his background, and whatever he has done or might in future do, we stand ready to wash him clean and welcome him in as chosen of God. That the people who are most in thrall to this vision are almost invariably atheists is precisely the point: “All significant concepts of the modern theory of the state are secularised theological concepts.” It is through the death of God, the killing indeed of God, that the state – and hence, man – is made the vehicle of redemption.
Two-thirds of asylum seekers who entered Germany last year had no proof of identity. Almost all refugees from African countries were unable to present any identifying documents, according to asylum figures released by the Federal Ministry of the Interior.
Authorities registered 113,236 refugees over the age of 18 who applied for asylum for the first time last year. According to the Interior Ministry, 74,089 of them had no identity documents. That represents 65.4%, the highest percentage ever recorded.
Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel has drawn criticism for calling on migrants in Germany to vote against the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.
Merkel, who served as the architect of the European Migrant Crisis in 2015, when she unilaterally decided to open the EU’s borders to unprecedented waves of foreigners from the Middle East and Africa, resulting in dramatic demographic transformations in her country and across the continent, appears to have let the cat out of the bag as to her motivation for doing so.
The mask is off.
Angela Merkel, who flooded Germany with third world men, admits it was votes.
Says it was to stop the AfD party!
pic.twitter.com/gGvdQgJKsP— Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 (@TRobinsonNewEra) March 13, 2026
MEXICO CITY — The Trump administration has launched an unprecedented immigration enforcement operation across the U.S. to deport people there illegally, but data compiled by a Mexican investigative outlet show that deportations of Mexicans were lower last year than in each of the previous four years.
Under the Biden administration, deportations of Mexicans per year reached nearly 300,000. Since President Trump returned to the White House last January, the U.S. has deported a little over 144,000 Mexicans to their homeland by the end of 2025, according to Mexican government data.
In Fact, it is Racist Not to Be
We are living in a time of all-out cultural war.
But you are not supposed to mention that or to talk about it, because you will at once be labelled “racist.”
I will argue, though, that this is a dangerous rhetorical tactic to accept.
I will note that it is racist, in fact, not to face the fact that we are in a battle of cultures.
h/t testsubjectx1
