The Schleswig-Holstein CDU Prime Minister Daniel Günther has already announced after the election in Bavaria that humiliated the CSU, a compromise to once again “renegotiate” immigration terms – in other words to make it even easier for migrants to come to Germany.
The very timing of this proposal for new legal measures, speaks of its frivolity. Deportations of criminals and asylum-seekers have only been undertaken on a cosmetic scale, and the latest attempt to control immigration by other means seems seems silly, says reporter Michael Paulwitz.
Closing the borders first, ending asylum abuse, illegal mass immigration, and only then drawing up new migration rules, would be the obvious order, he says.
The order and control of migration, however, are not included in this new “immigration law”. Rather, the hitherto arranged chaos seems to be continuing according to Paulwitz.
In fact, the new bill is line with the stated intention of the Chancellor, “to make legality out of illegality”. To her it is all a question of the label that has been attached to illegal mass immigration through the asylum backdoor. For rejected asylum seekers, even unskilled ones, the opportunity now looms to declare themselves as “jobseekers” and get the coveted residence permit.
So far, they have been able to do so only after having waited a few years while managing to escape from being deported or expelled.
The issue raises the central question of the legal separation between asylum and labour migration. There are still some formal restrictions that exist in German law, but they will soon be cleared away – as Daniel Günther has already promised. It will become faster and easier to gain a permanent residence permit.
Thus Merkel’s coalition encourages the further exploitation of the right to asylum as an entry ticket into Germany. If it does not work with asking asylum, you can still try it as a migrant and thus the abuse continues.
It is an open invitation this “immigration law” has extended to the world. Non-EU migrant workers will be able to enter a “job search” in the future without having the prospect of a specific job, and in return receive a six-month residence permit.
An academic degree or qualification for jobs where there are currently shortages, is no longer necessary. All that is required is a little knowledge of German and sufficient resources to provide for one’s own livelihood while seeking work.
For criminals and smugglers, this is a stimulus programme that opens up entirely new possibilities, because these new conditions are easy to get around. And already the ticket to the German social system is solved for them too.
The reason for these sudden measures is the myth of the supposedly omnipresent and increasingly dramatic “shortage of skilled workers”. However, the figures from the Federal Employment Agency still do not provide a sound basis for concern, as the number of unemployed skilled workers is many times greater than that of vacancies.
In addition, the free movement of workers within the EU opens up enough opportunities to compensate for employment shortages. Every second job created last year, was filled with foreigners – mostly with Eastern Europeans. But this new law will essentially invite low-skilled Africans and Asians to drive down German wages.
The Green asylum lobby, who can not open the country’s borders wide enough for their migrant clientele to grow bigger and vote for them, is also thrilled. On the other side however, is the poor German taxpayer.