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'Tensions are heightened': Germany struggles amid tide of Middle East
refugees

   By Don Snyder
   Published October 18, 2015
   FoxNews.com
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   Germany's Angela Merkel says European Union quotas are a 'first step'

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   asylum seekers has also  engendered considerable controversy.

   Bavarian State leader Horst Seehofer has threatened to take the federal
   government to constitutional court if it does not turn back the
   refugees at the border as an emergency measure. Roughly 10,000 migrants
   pour into the southern Bavarian State from Austria each day.

   Seehofer is the head of the conservative Christian Social Union (CSU),
   the sister party to Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU).
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   Europe.”

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   German Chancellor Angela Merkel is under fire for welcoming nearly 1
   million refugees. (AP file photo) (The Associated Press)

   Kopp said that women and children have been victims of sexual abuse and
   violence. Thousands of children have been separated from their parents.
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   register them so they can collect social benefits.

   Kopp praised the German volunteers who help the new arrivals.

   “I was in Karlsruhe recently where 2,000 Germans, from a 12-year-old
   girl to a 90-year-old woman, appeared daily to help the refugees,” he
   said.

   At the same time, there have been attacks on the asylum seekers. This
   year, there have been 505 attacks on asylum centers, mostly arson, as
   compared to 198 attacks for the same period last year, according to the
   Ministry of the Interior.

   Many Germans are anxious about absorbing people from different cultures
   with different religions. A respected poll conducted by ARD, a German
   public broadcaster, in September found that 38 percent of Germans were
   afraid of the new immigrants. That number jumped to 51 percent this
   month.

   The German Jewish community is concerned that Syrian refugees have been
   indoctrinated with hatred for Israel and for Jews. Josef Schuster,
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