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And simultaneously, my government (Germany) is only capable of thinking about how to make immigration even harder.

That's because the immigrants you're receiving are the wrong ones (the unskilled labor instead of high skilled labor).

If only they were even that - there is still quite big demand for even unskilled labor. Instead they are usually allergic to any type of work, and just looking forward to receive some benefits.

That's a despicable stereotype to apply to millions of people displaced by war and drought.

First of all, only small fraction of so called "refugees" storming EU are actual refugees, and even smaller fraction is from Syria. They come from whole Middle East and North Africa, including Libia, Egypt, Iraq, even Pakistan. And it is well known that they have demanding attitude:
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/6753/germany-migrants-dem...

in fact, none of them is refugee, because by definition used in international laws, they stop being refugees the moment they come to first safe country on their way, namely Turkey, so they enter EU as plain old economic immigrants.

Don't assume this is targeted only at Syrians. Your parent describes a situation we're confronted with in general. Locals and immigrants alike have understood that the optimal quality of life option in europe is to not work. Can't blame them when you see the alternatives at that level of qualification

Immigration to Germany as a skilled worker was very easy for me.

Could you please let me know how you applied for the German company and what the interview and visa processes were like?

I found the job on StackOverflow Jobs. There was an online test, some online video interviews, and then an in-person interview.

The visa I have is this one:

http://www.bluecard-eu.de/eu-blue-card-germany/

I had to scan some documents, but otherwise the process was mostly handled by the company. I had to do a couple meetings to finish the process once I moved but they put me on a temporary visa until that happened.

> thinking about how to make immigration even harder.

Well they just let in over 1 million new state aid dependants. Hardly a formula for growth.

No short term benefits but a lot of long term benefits. Germany has one of the largest aging population in Europe. They have just added a lot of people to their population and can use them however they like. Do not worry about germans they always knew how to screw with people.

Just look at the number of factories that operate outside of Germany and how many people they require in order to keep the machinery running. I do not hate them. I do not detest them. I am just scared at how they run things. And other countries seem to follow because they also want to take advantage of it.

I fail to see how having people translates into having jobs, skilled labor, etc. This crisis is about automation, there is no need for more people. It is also well-accepted that migrants contribute less to the economy, either due to lower wages or simply because they are unemployable.

The largest chunk of jobs is already in the service industry, where the amount of jobs tends to scale linearly with the amount of customers.

Germany needs new germans. Or people that will speak german. You can't automate everything. Not yet. A lot of automation today is TOO expensive. Requires too much maintenance and some other stuff cannot be automated at all. Or are you telling me that wiping old people's asses is something that has been already solved by building robots ?

Currently the government mostly seems concerned with wiping old people's assets. Not just in Germany.

(the main side-effect of the supportive economic policy we've had since is destroying pension savings by transferring wealth into large corporations)

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