Most worrisome has been the recent firm EU backlash against foreigners and a growing resistance to properly integrate foreigners more fully. Germany is not the only culprit, though, the entire European continent has built a fortress around itself in the last decades--even as demographers have cried out that closing the doors on new immigration and underfunding integration efforts is a NO-GO.
This EU (and German) ideology against fuller integration of foreigners is a very self-destructive position because many foreigners, taking Italy for example, already fulfill the role of caregiver for the aged. For example, Italy's newest laws cracking down on illegals last year has intentionally exempted those illegals who are undertaking housekeeping and care-giver roles.
EUROPE IS SITTING AROUND AND WATCHING PEOPLE DIE AT SEA
On Friday, September 24, Andrea Boehm published a very well researched article entitled WILLKOMMEN IN EUROPA in the newspaper, DIE ZEIT. In her piece, Boehm charges that "EU States are doing everything they can to scare away refugees." Moreover, "They let refugees drown right before European eyes on a regular basis."
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Boehm also explains that the anti-illegal hysteria in Europe has been overblown by almost every European state--including Germany--over the past decade.
Boehm cited the HWWI's (Hamburg World Economic Research Institute) Dita Voegel who stated in her project "Clandestine," "The Germany has been claiming that there are between half a million to one million illegal immigrants, however, the HWWI has found evidence of only 200- to 400,000 within German borders.
Similarly, the European Union has been claiming that there from 4.5 to 8 million illegals within EU borders but HWWI has demonstrated that there is as low as 2.8 million" illegals in Europe currently.
Boehm contrasted that with South Africa alone, which supports 7 million illegals (many of them refugees from Zimbabwe) currently.
In short, Europe is not being overrun to the extent that it has feared and "the Fortress Europe" mentality and Europe's manner of kicking out refugees and would-be immigrants (or letting them drown at sea) is a poor way to proceed economically and social these days.
The crack down on foreigners in Germany in recent years has led to a decline in foreigners living within German borders for the first time in decades. It has also reduced the numbers of applicants to come to Germany significantly. (Meanwhile, in Greece, the largest concentration camps have been set up at the lowest possible standards. Greece has done this because Germany and other states are not helping it out and many immigrants now come through Turkey or across the Mediterranean to Athens.)
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