The sad truth is that most or at least very many of my fellow Germans don't believe studies like this. Some still believe that most immigrants come into Germa

The sad truth is that most or at least very many of my fellow Germans don't believe studies like this. Some still believe that most immigrants come into Germany looking to live on welfare. Our constitution says "The dignity of Humans is untouchable". The going interpretation of the federal court is that immigrants, especially from the EU or asylum seekers, are humans, and thus the state has to pay them the same basic living subsidy as they pay unemployed Germans. A common interpretation is that this subsidy is higher than in a lot of European countries, and those poor should be immigrating in droves. But they don't. I suspect higher living costs, language difficulties and social ties play a more important role than one or two hundred Euros per month. When Polish people gained freedom to immigrate to Germany as a result of joining the EU and the Schengen Treaty, all sorts of German organisations predicted a deluge of undereducated low-pay workers. They didn't come either, at least not in the feared numbers. In the US as in Germany there are varying views on facts and numbers around immigration. I'm no longer convinced that there is any basis for restrictions on immigration. Nations would have to adapt to that, but so do we have to adapt to a shrinking workforce.