Immigration dispute threatens to bring down German coalition gov't | Eastern NC Now

The German coalition government is teetering on the brink of collapse over a dispute on tightening up immigration laws.  A similar collapse of the previous Dutch coalition over tightening immigration laws led to a landslide victory of anti-immigration parties in the snap election that resulted.

The current government is called the "traffic light coalition" as it is composed of the left-of-center Social Democrats (red), classic liberal Free Democrats (yellow), and far left Green Party (green).  As a result of mounting financial costs and mounting crime from illegal migrants, and polls showing the German people decivisely turning against open borders, the Social Democrats as lead party of the coalition have proposed legislation tightening up immigration laws, with the support of the Free Democrats.  That is being fiercely resisted by the Greens.

https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/german-traffic-light-coalition-floundering-on-deportations/

Polls show that the two parties running neck and neck in the lead if a new election is called are the traditional conservative Christian Democrats, who have taken a much more strident anti-immigration stand since Merkel left,  and the populist / nationalist anti-immigration Alternativ fur Deutschland, with all other parties far behind.  The three current coalition parties would all face significant losses, and the Free Democrats perhaps crash out of parliament completely, as they have already seen happen in state elections since joining this coalition.

The German parties of the left are also facing new competition, as the far left Left Party is cratering and likely to crash out of parliament, but a new party led by former Left Party floor leader Sahra Wagenknecht which is an anti-immigration and climate skeptic party of left would eat into the base of the Social Democrats and perhaps also to some extent the Greens.