For 2015, the German statistical guys say that 1.1 million entered and registered for the total number. Out of this, around 40-percent claimed to be Syrian. Around 10-percent were Iraqi. The rest were from across the globe: north Africa, central Africa, Asia, Pakistan, Iran, Albania, southeastern Europe, etc.
Economic refugees get a much lesser pass rate on the visa business. The German gov’t claimed that Syrians and Iraqis were getting a 90-percent pass rate because of the ISIS threat.
Statistically, they can claim with past conflicts (the Yugoslavia War, the Balkans conflict, etc)....a mass of people will come in and at least fifty percent will leave. They can go back over the past three decades and prove this case....which is why Merkel does believe this.
The problem is that they’ve gone to the full-up path where you’d become a citizen in three or four years. They’ve talked up the jobs being invented. They’ve poured money into job-training with tens of thousands of the 2014/2015 refugees engaged. There’s significant effort to force commercial builders into a scheme for urbanized area to build tens of thousand of apartments at a fast pace.
So she can claim this return-home idea on one hand, but she’s handling for the long-haul integration episode on the other. With three state elections in March...polling data doesn’t look that great in two of the states for Merkel’s party. This was just political talk with no value.
Isn’t it interesting that none of these refugees choose to or are accepted by their brother Arabs in other middle east countries. i.e. Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Libya. You would think they would flee to a country that shares their religious values and culture. The Europeans are fool and it looks like we are to follow.