Germany Entices Illegal Migrants to Leave with Bribes — Free Rent for a Year Back Home

https://nationalpost.com/news/world/germany-entices-illegal-migrants-to-leave-with-bribes-free-rent-for-a-year-at-home

Germany has been flooded this holiday season with billboards offering illegal migrants a bribe to leave — free rent for a year at home.

“Your country. Your future. Now!” displayed in seven languages, jumps off nearly 2,500 screens in 80 cities.

A series of flags corresponding with the top-destinations – Egypt, Turkey, Afghanistan, Eritrea and Russia – shapes a zigzagging road to a fictional horizon.

The “ReturningfromGermany” ad campaign is the latest tactic by the German government to boost departures and deter migration, in a reversal of Angela Merkel’s controversial welcoming policy of 2015 at the height of the Syrian refugee crisis. The campaign is the brainchild of interior minister Horst Seehofer, Merkel’s rebellious right-wing rival, who forced a coalition crisis over Germany’s asylum policy last summer.

While arrivals have normalized since three years ago – when Germany got 700,000 asylum requests – rejected asylum claims have piled up. The billboard campaign is mainly targeting the 235,000 persons who are still required to leave the country, the interior ministry says.

So why haven’t they left? The large majority of asylum seekers simply cannot be sent back – their claims have been rejected, but they cannot be returned because their country of origin is too dangerous, they lack documentation papers or suffer from illness. It’s a deadlock acknowledged by the German government itself: These 170,000 people are given special status – duldung (or tolerated) – to stay on temporarily. The others – those who are eligible for deportation according to the German yardstick – frequently don’t show up for their deportation. More than 20,000 airport repatriations were scrubbed this year; half of all scheduled. Every second person went missing in the run-up to departure.

So Seehofer took to the streets with his billboard campaign – aiming to push for voluntary departures. What’s he offering? A gift capped at 1,000 euros for a single person, 3,000 for families – to provide for basic facilities. Offering financial incentives to leave isn’t new. Since May 2017, the “ReturningfromGermany” portal shows the way to compensation fees and more than a thousand counselling centres to help navigate the return path.

Germany has a “stepping stone system. You get more money if you choose to leave earlier on,” says Meike Riebau, lawyer and migration expert at Save the Children Germany.

She is no fan of the current campaign.

“It’s a tasteless Christmas present.”

Depending on their nationality, asylum seekers can receive 1,200 euros if they return before the asylum procedure is completed; which drops to 800 after a rejected claim. But the 800 still beckons if they decide to depart voluntarily within 30 days.

Why are they paying people to leave?

This contradicts all the indoctrination and propaganda I have subjected to.

Hmm, why do I get the feeling that the OP is a double profile?

But this OP sure loves to post about nothing and then leave.

Sorry to interrupt your Orange Man Bad debates. We definitely need more of those.

Anything else than the same Trump debate is needed, but when you seem to do more hit&Run posting with no substance it does not really spark a debate.

Other countries should have worked with Merkel years ago to solve the migrant crisis instead of backing sides in a civil war, destabilising the Middle East in general and selling weapons to shady governments, but that's hindsight for you.

There's a reason the US doesn't start wars with south America. All that would happen is everyone from there would migrate to the US even more than the current rate

So instead, sht on the middle East and let Europe deal with it

Fair enough. When was the last thread you created?

You must have obviously created many great threads which we are still debating to this day.

@blaznwiipspman1: lol, you are right. It was USA fault for destabilizing Libya and Syria. Libya is where most of the migrants come from Africa, for people that didn't know. So, Europe should blame partly the USA for its problem.

Did US strategists know that this would happen? Was it something that they may have even seen as a strategic goal?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grand_Chessboard

Regarding the landmass of Eurasia as the center of global power, Brzezinski sets out to formulate a Eurasian geostrategy for the United States. In particular, he writes, it is imperative that no Eurasian challenger should emerge capable of dominating Eurasia and thus also of challenging America's global pre-eminence.

Much of his analysis is concerned with geostrategy in Central Asia, focusing on the exercise of power on the Eurasian landmass in a post-Soviet environment. In his chapter dedicated to what he refers to as the "Eurasian Balkans", Brzezinski makes use of Halford J. Mackinder's Heartland Theory.

@Damedius: no, but there may be people in the top brass pulling the strings. It's surprisingly pretty easy to do this actually.

Honestly I think mass immigration is the new normal (ugh hate that term, thanks Trump and Co)

The best we can do now is make assimilation as appealing as possible, let more people immigrate, while also being unconditionally ruthless on "bad apples", illegal, and so forth.

I think if you make the "legitimate" way of immigration a lot easier, encourage them to speak the language while dropping their more incompatible customs (i.e. sharia law, hatred of outsiders, etc) that's the way to at least ease these issues.

Also, have jobs waiting for them. Camps. Put them to work, not like slaves but give them work, a place to live, something to do when they get here. Like "sure you could go stay with your relative and their six kids in a one-room hovel in Berlin, or you could get a job with the state to help build new apartments for future immigrants; you'll be payed, sheltered, and fed."

Idunno, a guy can dream, right?

You should look into the Syrian drought. Some quick stats:

• 75% of farmland gone
• 80% of livestock dead
• Worst drought for sure in 500 years, likely the worst in over 900 years
• Problems date back as far as 2006

Forgive the source but whatever

Better Source :P

Not that the US is blameless, but there were huge problems and large migration issues long before the bombs were dropping. Turkey's water and hydropower programs have cut water to Iraq by 80% and Syria by 40%.

Desalination works for Israel, but it's incredibly expensive and Syria is a massive country relative to Israel.

It's a scary thought, but what is going on in Syria could very well be the first "climate war" (to paraphrase the article) fought not against a poor government or religious beliefs, but on the basic survival of an entire group of people against an non-human foe.