It’s really nice here.
The rivers (Elbe and Alster), the port, and the Wind.
the nice people, the internationality, all things that are hard to find in Germany…
**The Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, one of the 16 states of the federation, is the second largest city in Germany with its 1.7 million inhabitants. In this sense it is a city as well as a state.
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Hamburg has always been an open-minded commercial center, something that has always determined the mentality of the people living here.
Come and visit us here in Hamburg, we shall happily express our hospitality."
** from here
I always wanted to live in Hamburg and do so since 2001.
But then came “Judge Merciless”, a populist right-wing politician.
His Law and Order Offensive Pary (Partei Rechtsstaatlicher Offensive) got voted into the city government in 2001. (more information) (even more information)
They did all sorts of outrageous things and occasionally made fools outta themselves, which, I admit, was fun to read in the news. But the did real bad things too all the time. They passed a law that allows police to force suspected drug dealers to take an emetic to make them vomit up narcotics they might have swallowed. Soon after the law had passed one suspect died.
and now even this:
**The authorities in Hamburg have ordered that two sisters be deported to their native Ghana because they entered Germany without visas, even though their mother is a legal resident.
** from here
This is getting too much!
Do any of you live in Nazitown, Somewhere?
What’s it like?
Well, if the rule is that you need a visa, and you enter a country without a visa, then you should probably expect to be deported. Were they children? (I don’t have access to the NY Times on-line)
Thank you soooo much. It’s not like I don’t hear that song enough living where I do, but you had to go put it in my head…only altered.
Now I’ve got:
Once two strangers climbed ol’ Nazitown
looking for a moonshine still;
Strangers ain’t come down from Nazitown;
Reckon they never will.
Corn won’t grow at all on Nazitown;
Dirt’s too rocky by far;
That’s why all the folks on Nazitown
get their corn from a jar.
I live here too, ya know. And I spend my Saturdays working in a location that lets me hear The Pride of the Southland on football Saturdays.
I am so happy that the last home game is this weekend.
The Mother is legal in Germany. Her two daughters don’t have other family members to go to. the NYT: Asked what she would like, Gifty, who says she wants to be a nurse, said: “We don’t have any place to go. We just want to stay here with my mother.” Monkeypants
Okay, they’re only 12 and 13 years old. I thought that they might have been adults. I guess the bigger controversy would be why they’re original visa requests were denied.
