"Gastarbeiter and Crime
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In politically correct Germany, even pointing out facts can be controversial, as Roland Koch discovered. 'We have too many foreign juvenile criminals,' the governor of the state of Hesse told the daily Bild recently. He called for tougher punishments, including deportation.
Mr. Koch's straight talk prompted his political opponents to accuse him of 'xenophobia' -- a charge that stings in a country still haunted by its Nazi past. Mr. Koch, a Christian Democrat, is in a tough re-election race when voters in his state go to the polls on January 27. His Social Democrat opponents claim he is just trying ..."
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