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Watch Angela Merkel Tell a Crying Teenage Refugee Why She Has to Leave Germany

The girl starts to cry when Merkel tells her there are "thousands and thousands more" like her.

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According to the Guardian, German chancellor and notorious hard-ass Angela Merkel reduced a Palestinian refugee to tears on live TV last night, explaining to the teenage girl—who will likely be deported, along with her family—that "politics is hard sometimes."

"I have goals like anyone else," the girl, who arrived in Germany four years ago from a Lebanese refugee camp, told Merkel in German. "I want to study like them… it's very unpleasant to see how others can enjoy life, and I can't myself."

When the girl began to cry, the German politician awkwardly rubbed her on the shoulder and told her she "did it so well," which made everything OK. Just kidding. The girl kept crying.

The German government has already received twice as many applications for asylum this year as it did in the entirety of 2014, and with more and more refugees landing in the country each month, policymakers are struggling to find ways to house them. According to Merkel, the country simply can't.

German locals, afraid of being overrun, have set fire to several refugee camps in the past few weeks and shot at a home near the city of Leipzig twice this past weekend. Police say almost all of the attacks can be chalked up to xenophobia.

Merkel's half-assed attempt at comforting this girl now has started to blow up on the internet thanks to the hashtag #Merkelstreichelt, which translates to "Merkel strokes."