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Imagine you are a German who has some troubles and needs a second identity to escape the law or whatever. It’s 2015. What stops him from dying his hair black, putting on some shabby clothes, and presenting himself as a newly arrived refugee with no documents? He can even draw quite a bit of money from social welfare and after half a decade he gets a brand new German passport not attached to a real person which can be extremely valuable in right circumstances. What stops him from doing this 10 times with 10 different disguises? Or a gang doing this with real refugees at scale?
I suspect he might end up like Rachel Whatshername. Fake refugees are allowed to get away with what they do because everyone in the system is broadly sympathetic and don’t see any option other than letting them in as viable/moral. In short, ‘fake’ refugees are seen as morally justified by those who work with them, whatever the law says.
A ‘refugee’ who gives signs of being a German, however, is sinning against the standards of a lefty human rights lawyer / civil servant, which is a VERY different think. No charity would be given, no stone would be left unturned to root out the evil.
At least, that would be my prediction. It would be a very effective false-flag operation if anyone could manufacture such a scandal.
Yeah, I think the hard part would be doing a convincing foreign accent consistently.
Maybe it would easier to go to a different European country, less chance of getting found out if you aren't among Germans. Then go back to Germany a few years later.
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