[Economics] The Migration Business - Consumers or Recipients 2019-04-08

The promotion of migration is often seen as "leftist", the aid as "humanistic" and the consequences as "cosmopolitan". All these terms are positively occupied and disguise whose interests are served here. It is about supplying the local labor market with cheap workers. In migration from low-wage countries to high-wage countries, employers and investors profit on a large scale. Thus labor migration from low-wage countries to high-wage countries deserves criticism like recently with study of the Bertelsmann-Foundation that is close to employers. [1] [2] [3] [3,pdf]

But migration causes more people to compete for limited resources such as jobs, housing and social welfare. In the process, the equilibrium price for work is falling, living space is becoming scarcer and therefore more expensive and the costs of social assistance are rising. Thus companies benefit from lower wages can get lucrative orders for care and employers' organizations can use sentiment through migration to cut social assistance and thus lower the implicit minimum wage.

Meanwhile the left and employers' organizations seem to have agreed on a joint program. But this way the left has degraded itself programmatically. While employers' organizations demand immigration leftists are make do with managing the resulting society. And instead of fighting for higher incomes and a better standard of living they complement the demands of employers' organizations. See also:
[Commentary] The left is looking for a replacement proletariat [4] [5] [6] [7]

However migration can also be business for making money beyond labor migration. In a state with a welfare system people are provided with a subsistence level albeit to varying degrees. On the one hand you can earn money by caring for people in a social system. In addition as a result of migration employers' organizations and politicians can question welfare systems and then reduce the welfare benefits and thus the implicit minimum wage.

In Germany the cost of unaccompanied minor asylum seekers is about 50,000 euros and more per person. In the state of Schleswig-Holstein the costs of housing and providing care for 1,795 unaccompanied minor asylum seekers amounted to 105.2 million Euros in 2017. Also with such costs in mind it would be necessary to accurately determine one's age by a doctor. But if the supervisors and youth welfare offices determine a special need for the affected persons they can remain in the youth welfare if they are older than 18. In Germany in 2017 this applied to 43 % of those affected. [8] [9] [10]

In the wake of the migration crisis several people have decided to guarantee for the living-costs and other costs. For this they have signed commitments to guarantee for all living expenses of the person taken in. However according to many guarantors they were unaware that the obligations they had undertaken also apply after the persons taken in obtained the protection status. See also:
[Domestic Policy] Refugees-Guarantors - who in the end pays for the culture of a few guarantors of refugees welcome

In February 2019 Mohamed Abou-Taam the director of the Workers-Samaritan-Federation (Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund) was arrested and detained for investigative custody after after the headquarters of the welfare association was searched through by investigators. He is accused to have issued made bogus bills for never performed services and so misappropriated public funds in 2016 and 2017 together with the head of a security company which was commissioned to guard several accommodation shelters. According to prosecutors the two are said to have made a total of 3 million euros this way. See also:
[Domestic Policy] How the Workers-Samaritan-Federation has earned money with refugees welcome

In fact the prosecutor investigates against the associations "Agentur für Beschäftigung und Integration" (Agency for Employment and Integration) and "Gesellschaft für Familien und Gender Mainstreaming" (Society for Families and Gender Mainstreaming) in Bremerhaven and both the MP in Bremen Patrick Öztürk (formerly SPD) and his father Selim Öztürk regarding 1,000 fictitious employment relationships in order to receive unlawful claims to social benefits. In 724 cases Bulgarians of whom the vast majority belong to the Turkish minority in Bulgaria have received fictitious employment contracts through the associations. With these employment contracts they then received social benefits. And a part of these payments went then in cash to Patrick Öztürk (SPD) and Selim Öztürk. According to senior public prosecutor Janhenning Kuhn the damage amounts to 5.5 million euros. See also:
[Domestic Policy] How money was made in Bremerhaven with refugees welcome


[8] 50.000 Euro pro unbegleitetem jungen Flüchtling 2018-02-11
https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article173425414/Fluechtlinge-50-000-Euro-pro-unbegleiteten-Jugendlichen.html
[9] Junge Migranten kosten Deutschland vier Milliarden 2017-02-22
https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article162274380/Junge-Migranten-kosten-Deutschland-vier-Milliarden.html
[10] Migration: Milliardenkosten für junge Migranten 2017-02-22
https://www.zeit.de/gesellschaft/zeitgeschehen/2017-02/migration-unbegleitete-minderjaehrige-fluechtlinge-kosten

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