The Migrant Nightmare In Germany

Ever since Chancellor Angela Merkel opened wide the gates to a million Muslim migrants in 2015, Germany has been living a slow-motion nightmare, in which ever greater numbers of these economic migrants arrive, not to become productive and employed citizens, but to batten on the benefits the generous German welfare state provides, including free or greatly subsidized housing, free medical care, free education (or vocational training), unemployment benefits (without an employment record), family allowances, and more.

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These migrants are now costing the Federal government 36 billion euros a year in benefits. German state governments have also found their cupboards are bare for their own poor and elderly, because they must provide so much for these able-bodied Muslim layabouts who are in no hurry to be employed. In the city of Hamburg alone, the municipal government has in the last year spent one billion euros on migrants as costs spiral out of control. More on this colossal expenditure, which is only expected to grow inexorably,  can be found here.

Germany is spending a fortune every single day to cope with its massive and growing immigrant population, and in individual cities like Hamburg, those costs are becoming unbearable.

The budget committee for the city is now looking to increase its funding for the reception of migrants by €212.8 million, after having already raised it by €118.7 million earlier this year. Now, with the latest increase, the total amount of money for housing and caring for migrants in 2023 will total €1 billion.

This hardly covers all the costs for migrants either, with schooling, daycare centers, and healthcare all not factored into that €1 billion figure. The state alleges that the amount being spent on schooling cannot be calculated either.

Those one billion euros do not even cover medical care, schooling, and daycare, but only housing and, one assumes, food assistance. So there will be hundreds of millions of Euros, at least, or perhaps even another billion Euros, that will need to be spent annually to provide for those other services.

However, last year, Remix News reported specifically on the healthcare costs for migrants in Hamburg, which according to data obtained by the Alternative for Germany (AfD), the city-state had spent half a billion euros on migrant healthcare since 2016. This figure has likely ballooned further in 2023, as Hamburg received another large increase in migrants.

That means Hamburg is now spending at least 100 million euros each year just on healthcare for migrants, who are overwhelmingly Muslim. And that amount increases, as it does for all other benefits, pari passu with the increase in the Muslim migrant population.

Hamburg politicians are now calling on the pro-migration federal government to send more money. However, the federal bill for housing and caring for migrants is expected to top €36 billion this year, which is putting strains on the federal budget as well.

Officials in Hamburg, who are enraged that the pro-migration federal government saddled them with ever-increasing numbers of Muslim economic migrants, want more money from the government to enable the city to take care of them. The federal government, however, also  has increased costs due to the rise in migrant numbers, and finds it difficult to come up with the money it needs, which now surpasses 36 billion euros annually, to pay for those migrant benefits that are the responsibility of the government in Berlin.

Finance Senator Andres Dressel, of the Social Democrats (SPD), stated: “We were only able to provide needed reinforcements again through extreme efforts. We didn’t have to make cuts elsewhere, but were able to secure funding for 2023 with our own and federal funds. For the next few years, it won’t work without additional federal funding. The federal government must provide the states with more money for integration, not less, as planned so far. The traffic light (government) must understand that anything else would be poison for social cohesion. Poorer states and municipalities would have to cut back elsewhere to pay for refugee reception – the federal government can’t want that!”

It was just last week that Social Affairs Senator Melanie Schlotzhauer, also of the SPD, said: “There is no relief in sight, and our capacities are 97 percent full. We are at the limit of what good integration is possible in Hamburg. The admission numbers are too high, they have to come down.”

Everywhere at the local level officials, like the left-wing SPD politicians in Hamburg,  have been blindsided by the costs of these migrants, and now, reversing their previous policies, they openly call for an end to admitting these expensive Muslim migrants. This is quite a contrast from just a few years ago, when the SPD leaders in the city were still calling for more migrants to settle in Hamburg.

Notably, in 2020, Remix News reported that the SPD and other left-wing parties enthusiastically called for more refugees and migrants into Hamburg and other cities under the hashtag #WirHabenPlatz, which translates into “We have space” in English.

But that was then, and this is now: in Hamburg, the left-wing ruling SPD no longer proclaims “We Have Space.” Now it is: “Stay Out. We can’t accommodate you.” And to the federal government, that is responsible for the immigrant wave, the Hamburg officials say “for god’s sake, stop the migrants at the border. We can’t afford them.”  

Hamburg, like many German cities and towns, has been forced to open emergency accommodations to deal with the unrelenting stream of newcomers. According to Germany’s Bild newspaper, the city is now using a trade fair hall to house them, which should be open until the end of January. In August, the city took in another 1,400 refugees, and in September, another 1,700.

However, the city will now have to open yet another emergency shelter, although it is unclear where that will be….

Where will the city find enough rooms to house these ever-rising numbers of migrants? Now it is using a trade fair hall, where families must make do living in large dormitories, or putting thousands in hotel rooms, at enormous cost. The city of Hamburg, like all other cities in Germany, was simply not prepared to accommodate such an influx. The federal government, not the states or cities, sets immigration policy, but it is the states and cities that pay most of the costs. No wonder local officials are enraged at the open-door policies of Merkel and her successors.

The Alternative für Deutschland, which is anti-Muslim immigrant — and not, as is so often reported, against all immigrants — has been soaring in the polls, and is now the second-largest party in Germany. Immigration has become the most pressing issue for almost half the German population. Nearly two-thirds of Germans say that migrants bring more “disadvantages than advantages” to the country and the same number say that Germany should cut back on the number of migrants it accepts. If the question had been broken down further, so as to distinguish between Muslim and non-Muslim immigrants, the results would have been even more telling. If asked “Do you support non-Muslim migration,” more than one-third would likely have been in favor, but if asked if they support Muslim migration, two-thirds would likely be against. Ordinary citizens are quite capable of distinguishing the benefits that result from admitting Polish or Ukrainian migrants, from the societal and economic costs that result from the large-scale presence of Muslim migrants.

How long will the people of Germany have to wait until the AfD comes to power, does the people’s bidding, as promised, and puts an end, at long last, to Muslim immigration? And how long will it take to begin the difficult process of persuading or forcing Muslims already in Germany, through sticks and carrots, to return home? Five years? Three years? Two? For many in Germany, such a political revolution, from the bottom up, with the Afd replacing the SPD, can’t come soon enough.