Refugees Outnumber Locals in German Village By Anna Kistner Not really sure what to think about this -- this isn't a good thing for sure, I believe asylum seekers need to be carefully placed out, as to guarantee integration and in doing so reflect social reality, e.g. 10% of German population being immigrants, they ought to take that into account by placing them in asylum centres... And, what on Earth -- no education? Are you kidding me? That is truely bad.
My mother has worked with asylum seekers for several years as a volunteer and most of what it says in the article is true for North Rhine-Westphalia too. There are almost no German language courses, or if there are then they are only once or maybe twice a week. Therefore, the parents of many families my mother supported were unable to read or speak German well enough to understand the bureaucreatic documents even after years of living in Germany. Some of those families had lived in Germany for over 15 years before they were sent back to their home countries. In all that time they usually were not allowed to work at all because they didn't get a working permit. And the asylum seekers were mainly housed at the very edge of the town since nobody wanted them any closer. It's for exactly these reasons why integration is hampered. Most of the families my mother worked with were willing to learn the language, work and integrate themselves into German society. They just weren't offered the opportunity. So instead of always faulting the asylum seekers for not integrating we should really take part of the responsibility. There wouldn't even be the fear of "islamisation" if we were just a little more open-minded as a society.
There are only 61 locals in the tiny German town and there is a centre to accommodate 76 asylum seekers at a former hotel on a hill in the village and it's an exaggeration to say that there are too many refugees.
Why do we have asylum seekers? Thousands of years of human history without one (*)(*)(*)(*) asylum seeker from the muslim world, and now suddenly we're being overrun. I wonder why that is. Just end it. End mass immigration.