Germany's left-wing populists have revealed data showing that 48 percent of all recipients of state unemployment benefits are not German citizens, and that a majority of some immigrant groups are unemployed.
More than 2.5 million foreigners living in Germany receive Bürgelgeld ('national allowance'). This is Germany's state benefit, which provides cash payments to people who don't work, can't work, or don't work enough to supplement their income. up to the survival level. This group accounts for 48% of all recipients in Germany, with 2.9 million German citizens and 2.7 million foreigners.
The number of Germans receiving unemployment benefits has been decreasing or stable for years, reaching 3.3 million in 2021. In contrast, the number of immigrants receiving unemployment benefits continues to steadily increase to 2 million. 3 years ago.
german die welt report Data shows that some refugee groups are more likely to be unemployed. Almost half (47 percent) of Afghans have received Bürgelgeld, and 55 percent of Syrians have received this benefit, a staggering figure in the era of the European migration crisis. percentage has decreased.
The release of this data was accomplished by the eponymous party of the Bundniss-Saala-Wagenknecht (BSW, Sala-Wagenknecht Union), a new political party founded by Sarah-Wagenknecht earlier this year. The party is one of Europe's few left-wing populist parties and has distinguished itself by opposing mass immigration but not the economically liberal policies favored by many right-wing populists.
The lines are often blurred here, but Marine Le Pen's French faction, commonly referred to as the far-right in establishment media, pursues fairly hard-nosed left-wing economic policies, making the BSW a powerful force. They argue that a welfare state that is functional is the only way to function. In the long run, unless you release it to the whole world. As reported, BSW has already performed well in recent elections for a party only a few months old.
Reacting to Bürgelgeld's numbers, Wagenknecht said: “The fact that almost half of national allowance recipients do not have a German passport is evidence of a failure in Germany's immigration and integration policy and contributes to the fact that national allowance payments are falling. “There is” becoming increasingly unpopular. ”
Wagenknecht emphasized a left-populist position, arguing that “a strong welfare state only works if everyone can't immigrate to it.”
These numbers obtained by left-wing populists dramatically illustrate the impact that first-generation immigrants have on welfare bills, but they do not account for whether there is a phenomenon of long-term intergenerational unemployment in immigrant communities. Given that Germany harbors the conceit that second-generation immigrants are actually German, as is usual in European countries, the published statistics obscure the possibility of such an investigation. There is.
However, some groups in Germany are trying to circumvent this aspect of official statistics. For example, the right-wing AfD populist party has succeeded in largely representing the influence of second-generation immigrants on sex crime statistics by ensuring the names of all gang rape suspects in a state are published, and the majority are lenient. I discovered that it has a name called . Non-traditional name.
“We see a clear trend,” they said, adding that apart from their own analysis and the same data from mainstream German newspapers, more than three-quarters of gang rape suspects in that year “were of immigrant descent.” He said this suggests he had a last name.
