Sad but true.
This country is desperate for workers and too stubborn and racist to actually let people work here.
See, if a refugee exists that actually has a job and can pay for its own life, Ronny, Tschantall and Maik are reminded that they dont have a job and cant pay for their own shit. And as long as this is happening they need to shit on whoever is actually not a lowlife looser because this very fact makes em feel shitty. So they vote afd because its always easier to shit on others than trying to get your own shit together.
But they have a job, that’s the point! Thuringia has almost full employment, just as Germany as a whole.
If you’re unemployed in Germany right now, lack of jobs is not the reason why. Ironically, many women are forced to stay unemployed, because they can’t find kindergardens, because the kindergardens are also lacking teachers and can’t take on more kids.
I’ve always thought of being a refugee as a temporarily thing until the situation at the source country settles down.
That’s true. But refugees who have lived and worked long-time in Germany can get the right to reside here permanently, independently from their right to asylum or similar protection. This is to encourage them to actually get a job rather than just rely on government handouts.
I think the idea of working while you are living as a refugee can be problematic. I’d be fine with refugees just relying on government assistance for the duration of their stay, assuming it isn’t a decade long stay or something.
In cases like the Syrian civil war or political prosecution in regimes like Iran, it can easily be more than a decade. If you prohibit anyone from getting any work for that long and force them to sit on their hands (or work illegally without a permit), they will have a hard time getting back into work and probably continue to rely on government handouts. Who wants to employ someone who hasn’t worked any job for a decade (as an adult) after all?
So you have a choice: Either you allow and encourage refugees to get into the workforce early and accept that they will probably remain here even if they could return after like 5 years. Or you stop them from working for years and accept that many refugees will remain here for decades and rely on government handouts the entire time without ever finding a job.
The real story sounds even weirder. They took his work permit for the sole purpose of stopping any integration that could hinder a later deportation. Wtf. Fachkräftemangel my ass.
Luckily, the man in this story got his work permit back after public backlash (German news report).
