Med hensyn til indvandringen har delstatsminister Beckstein begået en fatal fejl, idet han sagde, at man ikke ville kunne forlange af Spanien, at det skal optage 25.000 mennesker. Det handler slet ikke om, hvorvidt det er rimeligt at forlange optagelsen heraf, nej - det handler om menneskeskæbner ved vores kyster og om, at disse mennesker er i nød.
On the subject of immigration, Günther Beckstein, the Bavarian Interior Minister, made a disastrous error when he claimed that it would not be too much to expect Spain to take in 25 000 people, for what matters is not whether or not it is reasonable that they should be expected; the real point is that the fate of people – people in desperate need – waiting offshore, is at stake.