Nigel Farage believes the suggestion by the German migration commissioner to send migrants to Rwanda is a direct response to the success of the AfD.
Speaking on GB News Nigel Farage said: “Well, if you think we've got a problem with illegal immigration, it's nothing compared to what's happened in the European Union since 2015, with huge numbers crossing the Mediterranean and also coming into Europe from the east.
“And it's really interesting that in Germany, a country that has always tried to be very liberal and tolerant about these things, politics is changing very, very quickly.
“We saw over the course of the weekend, the AfD winning a state election, nearly winning a second state election in the old East Germany.
“And now today, a proposal that comes from Germany's migration Commissioner Joachim Stamp, who was saying, what we ought to do is to send people to come to Germany illegally, to wait for it Rwanda. To go into the same blocks that have effectively been built and paid for with British taxpayers' money.
“So what's actually happening? And you can go to Scandinavia, you can go to Denmark, you can go to Germany, you can go down to the south of Europe, where you'll find the talk on illegal immigration, political talk, is getting very, very tough indeed.
“Much being said about removing benefits, and indeed, only this week, the deaths of those 12 people just off Cap Gris-Nez was blamed by a French politician on the British for being too generous.
“In the light of this German proposal, ask yourself a question: have we gone soft?”
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