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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Earlier this month, Germany's foreign ministry announced it was dispersing funds to two nonprofit organizations that assist asylum-seekers, including a group that conducts search-and-rescue operations in the Mediterranean Sea.
Musk, on Friday, amplified similar criticism and directly waded into German domestic politics, suggesting that the governing coalition should pay a price at the ballot box.
AfD is Alternative for Germany, a far-right political party that campaigns against migration to Europe — and has strong ties with right-wing extremists, including those of an "outright neo-Nazi nature," per an investigation by Der Spiegel.
According to the United Nations, the vast majority (83%) of migrants crossing the Mediterranean — many fleeing war, political repression, and poverty in Africa and the Middle East — end up landing in Italy.
"Considering that on average one person dies every three hours in the Mediterranean Sea while fleeing, two million euros for search and rescue in this year's federal budget is more than sobering," Kaldenhoff said.
This week he traveled to to Eagle Pass, Texas, where on a choppy X livestream he lambasted the White House for not doing more to quell the flow of migrants across the US-Mexico border.
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