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Heidi Plumpton
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It's not the German.culture that's collapsing under the refugees demands
on the very generous German welfare state, It's the financing of it.
Germany is no longer able to fund that system. Their economy is shrinking.

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Lutz Enke
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Is Germany being ruined by refugees?
“Is Germany really that weak in culture to only take several thousands
of refugees to ruin it?”

First, it’s not “only several thousands”. In the last two years alone it’s already 1.5 millions. Already in 2014, there were 200,000 asylum applications. And it’s foreseeable, especially with today’s basically open-borders migration policy in Germany, that this will rise
significantly over coming years.

Second, many of the immigrants are not refugees. Only ~40% of the
immigrants came from Syria. Many others came for economic reasons from countries such as various North and Central African countries or from
countries such as Afghanistan.

Third, no, Germany is not ‘ruined’ by the refugees. But indeed, the immigration is a huge burden to Germany:

massive financial cost — hundreds of billions of Euros over coming
decades — threatening the German welfare system that will already be stretched by demographic change
increase in crime — especially the type that makes people (women) feel
unsafe in the streets — reasons are that a large share of the migrants
are young men without economic prospects or strong local family ties
increase in terror risk — both because Germany made it easy for ISIS operatives to come to Germany, and because the hundreds of thousands of
young Muslim men without jobs or education are the perfect recruiting
ground for hate preachers
political polarization — Germany’s society is heavily occupied with this topic, and heavily polarized by it; we’re less able to tackle and solve numerous other problems — same for the EU, Germany’s immigration policy polarized the EU, distracting from other problems and putting oil on the anti-EU fires, potentially even influencing quite some Brexit voters
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