Is this enough to topple Merkel? Kinda funny how early last year she was pretty much the most powerful politician in Europe and somehow she decides to fuck it all up by doing this. What was she thinking?
I think she really wanted to help people. And to be fair, if they integrate well and would adapt to the German society (or other places) they are coming to, the numbers themselves aren't that much of a problem.
The big issue is that we have seen in the past that these groups of immigrants don't integrate well for various reasons and are over represented in crime. Something a lot of people already saw coming and are worried about.
Add to that apparently understaffed police and that most of the immigrants are young men with no respect for other societies, believes, women or authorities here, and you have a recipe for trouble.
Basically, she was very naive and thought everyone would be thankful for any help Europe would give and be on their best behavior. But sadly, that is just not true.
I guess that is a pretty big problem in that if you deport them you're sending them back to Syria, and then they'll probably leave again to be someone else's problem. Maybe prison and attempting to reform them in prison is a better path. When things get to this point it seems like it's choosing the lesser of two evils.
Considering we still have trouble with second or third generation immigrants when it comes to integration and crime, I doubt reforming them will do much good. There seems to be a lack of respect for authority and police, and the sentences we hand out here don't make much of an impression. If they get caught that is, because for a lot of these crimes nobody is going to prison.