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Asylum seekers and war refugees in Germany have been promised a better level of state support by the Constitutional Court - which ruled on Wednesday morning they must get around the same as those on basic unemployment benefits.
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"If they don't like the laws in Germany, then they need to go back to their own country."
The problem is that it is YOU who don't like the laws in Germany, in particular Vienna convention on refugees, which Germany has signed and is obliged to comply, i.e. accept refugees who's life is in danger in their own countries and provide them basic needs for living.
If you don't like this, elect another government who will withdraw Germany's signature from this convention. I would like to see, how this will affect German economy.
Asylum - if you seek asylum, you cannot work. Only after asylum request is approved can you work. Therefore the host state must pay for the asylum seeker to maintain an adequate life during the waiting period. Or are people here suggesting they should be allowed to work immediately so that they are not a drain on the state??
Yes the export market for German goods remains relatively strong, but if Germany runs out of workers then they can have all the demand they like. Check out the German birth rate and demograph, there is already a shortage of engineers and skilled workers, the rot has already started.
Intolerance is an abhorent condition, I think most Germans are very tolerant the people who tend to be intolerant are usually the people who don't realise how immigration will enrich German society. These are the narrow minded people who usurped power 80 years ago. I don't think anybody would realistically want them back.
In fact, I think we've already seen a portent of that happening with Greece's 'Golden Dawn' party, threatening to 'throw immigrants and their children out of increasingly scarce hospital beds'.