Why wouldn’t Germany welcome educated, Western people from, say, Poland or maybe as far away as Greece and Spain? They would have job skills and some might already speak German at some level and almost all could learn it. It does not make sense to import people from a violent, hostile culture, who have few skills and almost all of whom will be a burden on the welfare system and require massive spending on police and security.
They have welcomed Greeks, Spaniards, Dutch, British, Americans, and Poles.
There are 108,000 Americans living in Germany, who are NOT associated with the military presence. These are people working in the IT sector, the entertainment business, own pubs and bars, retired, etc.
Over 300,000 Greeks live presently in Germany. Since their economic woes started up....I’d take a guess that at least a thousand a month (well educated and professional types) are making the move into Germany. In my region, there are dozens of Greek restaurants and it’s very popular with the locals.
There’s a minimum of 600,000 Poles living and working in Germany....with probably another 100,000 who drive over for a week or two of work before returning to Poland (roofers, electricians, etc).
There’s a minimum of 180,000 Bulgarians who live now and work in Germany.
Roughly 100,000 Brits work here....mostly in Frankfurt and Berlin. There’s talk since BREXIT occurred....that 10,000 Brit jobs may move from London into Frankfurt. Some Frankfurt people speculate that 80,000 London jobs will eventually make the move. You could see an entire community in Frankfurt alone of 100,000 Brits in three years if they do carry out the EU exit.
So don’t get the idea that the open door hasn’t been beneficial. If you use the 2014 data (before all the hyped up refugee business), then 12-percent of the nation is non-German. Of that group, 1.5 million were Turk or Kurd. Job-wise and integration-wise....prior to 2014...the system was working. But this was a program devised for a friendly and cheerful incoming crowd...who integrated for the most part...caused little trouble...and had jobs waiting for them. After 2014, the system wasn’t built for what has developed.
Even now....with the fake coup in Turkey and the potential that 500,000 Turks and Kurds may escape into Germany because of the business going on there....it’s not all negative. A lot of the people are simply anti-Erdogan, highly educated (lot of professors and instructors), and businessmen. If this new refugee issue occurs, there might be some positives. You have to remember....a lot of Turks just weren’t hyped up much over Islam, and had become westernized over the past couple of decades.
When you get down to it...out of eighty-one million residents...probably 98 percent are law-abiding people and respectful of society. It’s this two percent crowd that reflect non-German or non-western values.