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> the recent wave of xenophobia worldwide your welfare state is not the world model e.g. Germany Sees Welfare Benefit Costs More Than Double Asylum seekers
by PeachPlum 9y ago
> the recent wave of xenophobia worldwide
your welfare state is not the world model
e.g.
Germany Sees Welfare Benefit Costs More Than Double
Asylum seekers received nearly $5.91 billion in welfare benefits in 2015
https://www.wsj.com/articles/germanys-welfare-bill-rises-169-as-refugee-numbers-grow-1473077920 https://www.wsj.com/articles/germanys-welfare-bill-rises-169...
and your assessment of employment rates among legal immigrants in Europe is simply not borne out by the statistics
https://www.economist.com/news/finance-economics/21709511-too-few-refugees-not-too-many-are-working-europe-refugees-sweden-are https://www.economist.com/news/finance-economics/21709511-to...
- zaptheimpaler 9y agoIf you read my comment, I was talking about restrictions on WORK visas in the US, not refugees in Europe.