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They’re not mutually exclusive groups 🤔

I know the guy you’re talking about, didn’t hear the interview though. Would love to know he meant by claiming Germany accommodated 1 million Syrians, because those they did accommodate certainly weren’t accommodated in a short period. There were a good few reports done in 2020 because it was the five year ‘anniversary’ of when Germany took in 1 million refugees, and some of the findings were positive, some findings made for grim reading -

337000 People in Germany are Without a Home

The largest group of people experiencing homelessness were refugees with protec- tion status, who had not yet been able to find independent housing (despite having full entitlement to job seekers benefits with a housing component and full rights to rent a home). Depending on the size of the municipalities, between 1.1 (small towns and rural counties) and 4.0 (large cities) refugees with protection status out of every 1000 residents were homeless. The data in the participating municipalities also indicates that these numbers are significantly lower in the east German states when compared to the west – this can partially be explained by the fact that for a long time housing markets in the East were more affordable than those of West Germany, which at least temporarily made it easier to find housing for refugee families with protection status specifically.

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Depending on the group, a quarter to a third of homeless people are women.

https://www.feantsaresearch.org/public/user/Observatory/2020/EJH/EJH_14_1-RN1-Web%5B1%5D.pdf

(they must be copying the NWCI’s homework 🤨)

But seriously though, on the labour market front, the findings are more positive, but still mixed -

Syrians are the main beneficiaries of refugee protection in Germany, yet many are still forced to rely on state welfare to survive. New figures show that only around 35% of Syrians of working age are able to make a living.

Things seem to be moving in a positive direction for Syrians, however. The proportion receiving state benefits is lower than last year: in March 2020 it was close to 70%. Since then, many have got jobs as doctors – according to the German Medical Association, Syrians now make up the largest group among foreign doctors, with 4,970 employed throughout the country last year.

As of April 2021, about 27% of Syrians in Germany were of working age. Those attending integration courses or professional language courses are not included in unemployment figures but are counted as "underemployed". But benefits are also paid to those who earn so little that they cannot support themselves on their income.

https://www.infomigrants.net/en/post/33597/germany-twothirds-of-syrian-refugees-unable-to-support-themselves

Five years on, the integration of this population is impressive. By December 2018, there were 1.8 million people with a refugee background in Germany (including beneficiaries of international protection, asylum seekers, and those who had their request rejected). 75 percent are younger than 40, and most have higher levels of education than other migrants. Today, about half have found a job, paid training, or internship. On arrival, only about one percent declared having good or very good German language skills. By 2018, that figure had increased to 44 percent. Such contributions are badly needed within an aging German labor market, which is facing skill shortages and needs trained migrant labor.

Such successful integration also has impacted the local German population. For example, between 2008 and 2015, the number of employees in companies founded by migrants grew by 50 percent (to 1.5 million). It has also mobilized civil society. A survey by the Allensbach Institute for Public Opinion Research suggests that 55 percent of Germans have contributed to the integration of refugees since 2015, either financially or through their own involvement in supportive actions. Such engagement has increased support for migrant populations overall and has demonstrated the success of Merkel’s move.

https://www.cgdev.org/blog/five-years-later-one-million-refugees-are-thriving-germany

Two years on from 2020, the previous cohort of refugees might be forgiven for thinking ‘Scheiße’, with Germany finding itself facing exactly the same issues as Ireland regarding the integration of refugees into society -

More people will have sought refuge in Germany in 2022 than at the height of the European migrant crisis, Welt am Sonntag newspaper reported Sunday.

The newspaper said the country is on course to see 1.2 million new arrivals this year — a 35% increase from 2015 when 890,000 migrants and refugees, mainly fleeing the Syrian war, came to the country. 

This year's tally was calculated from the more than a million Ukrainian refugees welcomed in Germany since Russia's invasion unfolded in February and an expected 200,000 asylum seekers by the end of the year.

By the end of October, some 181,612 asylum applications were recorded, Welt am Sonntagreported, mostly from Syrian, Afghan, Turkish, and Iraqi nationals. 

https://amp.dw.com/en/migration-to-germany-to-hit-12-million-in-2022-report/a-63978746

Can’t find any media on this but presuming it’s a valid story…. It’s pretty indicative of the mindset of some of these people arriving here and the sense of absolute entitlement that they believe they can jump onto private land, start playing football there…..no questions asked. 😣🙄

Saw it with the demand to walk into the gym here and exercise free gratis… some belief exists obviously that this country and its people are just here to convenience them, comply with every wish, whim, and demand…..that services, public or private shall facilitate them with an open door mindset.

Seen the same in my own gym. Pure entitlement. You can find the Bluebell incident on twitter I wont post here for fear of upsetting the usual suspects.

We'd be a stone aged contry without the EU

One thing that get's forgotten when it comes to blaming the EU for "forcing" Ireland to take in unlimited numbers of Refugees/economic migrants/asylum seekers is that under the Lisbon Treaty Ireland has specific opt outs on justice and immigration affairs. So the powers that be could say we're implementing that opt out on immigration overnight. If they so wished.

Its fake.

the EU has aspects of it that have been overwhelmingly positive for both Ireland and other member states.

that aspect has been flittering away for some time.

The Irish authorities consistently has the lowest rate of or one of the lowest rates of refusal to applications from asylum seekers of any of the EU’s 28 member states last year.

One year..Only 15% of first-time decisions on asylum applications in Ireland were rejected, compared to an EU average of 63%.

A total of 1,275 asylum seekers in the Republic were granted protection in 2018, of which 815 were awarded refugee status. Add the Ukrainian situation and other on top now…massive numbers… not only numbers on a spreadsheet….lives, requiring money, housing, services.

leaving the EU would not be without risk, but when it’s impossible to achieve sensible reforms from within, impossible to guarantee citizens and taxpayers basic needs like timely healthcare , adequate housing…..questions need to be asked.. ARE being asked.

Great to see protestors rising up against the likes of Shinners over open borders.

The whole Irexit thing is hilarious because it exposes the lack of intelligence and knowledge in the people espousing it.