I live in Germany, so I can tell this side of the story.
When the numbers increased back in 2013...you could walk in and do the paperwork....then spend six weeks in some temp-center which was just some big tent or gym-like building. By the end of 2014, the waiting time in the big tent deal was closer to twelve weeks. By the end of 2015, it was closer to eight MONTHS in the big tent situation.
So as the time increased, the frustrations of living with a bunch of jerks and idiots triggered fights and arguments within the big tent deal. Iraqis hated Syrians....Albanians hated everybody....North Africans had issues, and so on.
Germans kept grinning and patting themselves on the back....saying ‘Gut German’, but they were lousy at this whole business of handling refugees, immigration and asylum seekers. If you had to pick any country and their program....this was the most marginalized one-star program in existence. But they had fine records....go figure on that one.
Even after they got the papers and got out of the big tent...then they went into shock as these major urban zones that they all wanted to live in (Dusseldorf, Hamburg, Frankfurt)....were all lacking low-income housing. When they did get a referral and showed up....they stood there in shock at what you’d pay for a 2-bedroom in Frankfurt. Toss in the issue of cost of living, the cost of gas or a car, and the type of jobs that they’d be offered, and it was all a wasted effort.
Still today, the German political dimwits really don’t grasp how they’ve screwed up the whole process. State-run news still pats everyone on the back. And more people arrive fresh from parts unknown....getting a bus ride over to the big tent, and starting their eight-month long hang-out.
Thanks for sharing that report.
That’s great info, thanks for the insight. So to me it sounds like there’s either a saturation point that’s been reached, or that the bureaucracy is so lame (like everywhere) that it takes fifty forevers to get anything done.