I think there were two factors playing into this. Most people see the 1.1 million immigrants for 2015 and just think it’s one region. It’s a mixture of Syrian/Iraqis (maybe around 40-percent), North Africans and central Africans (30-percent) and the rest from southeast Europe and ‘other’.
First, few realize this but Assad over the past two or three decades actually put money into education. So from all the Middle Eastern countries....Syria had more education and technical training than anyone else. No one in Germany gives statistics, but I’d take a guess that more than 50-percent of the Syrian crowd had a background profession (baker, engineer, cook, mechanic) which involved some training and education. This ease of getting them hired would be simple. I won’t say that for the north African crowd who has zero profession and most Germans tend to think their only background is robbery and illegal drug sales.
The second issue is low-income jobs. Germany has a ton of these jobs which Germans now refuse to sign up for or apply to. So, cheap new labor might make some sense.
The overall problem is that jobs aren’t invented out of thin air, and this fake storyline by the state-run TV news people in Germany makes it sound like tens of thousands of jobs will be invented each quarter as these people transit the language and integration classes. By mid-summer of 2016...reality will begin to hit as gov’t run job-centers have to invent some type of fake job or fake school environment....to hide the mounting numbers of immigrants who aren’t hired.
The next national election in Germany is November of 2017. But we have several state elections coming up (3 in March and 2 in the fall of 2016)....which will attract frustrated Germans to vote in a radically different pattern.
“It’s a mixture of Syrian/Iraqis (maybe around 40-percent)”
According to the EU, less than 20% of the migrants who have gone to Germany are Syrians.