In an approving tone, Merz said the number of refugees fleeing to Germany had fallen since he took office in May, “but we still have this problem in the cityscape, and that is why the interior minister is working to carry out large-scale deportations.”
They wouldn’t need to quote someone, they could contextualise. Because these comments are racist.
It is not xenophobe, it is racist. Why? Because it’s focused on visual expectations and outward appearances. Xenophobe would mean that Austrians, Swedes, French, white non-germans in general, would also be rejected. But “cityscape problem” and meaning near eastern and northern african looking persons rejects people based on visual, racial stereotypes. Also, it targets near eastern and northern african looking Germans.