Gottfried Curio
Immigration Costs
German Bundestag, January 16, 2020,
Plenarprotokoll 19/140, pp. 17468-17470
[Gottfried
Curio is an Alternative für Deutschland Bundestag member from Berlin. He is a physicist and musician and is the AfD’s Bundestag
spokesman for immigration and integration
policy. He here presents an AfD motion (Drucksache 16488) calling on the government
to publish a general accounting of the costs of immigration in Germany. Hartz-IV
is a large-scale unemployment compensation program.]
Right honorable Herr President. Ladies and gentlemen.
A prerequisite for democracy is the complete information of the citizen.
The AfD demands the entire cost of the migration policy be comprehensively laid
out. Many costs are not at the federal but at the state and local levels and
are apportioned to several budgets. What is lacking is a yearly detailing of the
open-borders policy’s costs as a transparent, big picture for the taxpayer. If,
with the two-figure billion expenditures, the government whistles “From no one
will something be taken away on account of the refugees,” then the citizen
suspects that precisely that has not occurred. Each euro can be expended only
once. Since, who can sponsor the entire, no-nations-orgy? The extorted
taxpayer! To whom this government must finally submit a detailed balance sheet.
The welcome party costs, namely: Accommodation and care, sickness accounts and later
pensions, German courses and translators, unsuccessful deportation efforts,
only a few, inconceivably expensive deportations, security personnel, police
deployments, hundreds of thousands of denial procedures and then the
administration of this total chaos. Billions are flung at all of this and so
these billions are lacking in other areas. The German public officials union
sounds the alarm. The public administration is at an end, kaputt, at system collapse! From building permits right through to
the courts – absurd waiting times, no personnel, no equipment! Criminal
suspects must be released. The infrastructure crumbles, day-care is lacking, instruction
is omitted.
Those who are productive shall be extorted by the state and will receive
nothing in return. Hans Werner Sinn states that the migration policy has already hitherto cost the taxpayer 1,000
billion euros, as does Professor Raffelhüschen.
The Institute for the German Economy and the Institute for Economic
Research arrive at a good 50 billion euros per year. The Federal Ministries of
the Interior, Education, Families, Environment and Finance must together come
up with such a sum. The Market Economy Foundation makes clear that Germany plainly
does not profit. “An uncontrolled immigration brings the country not fiscal
return but long-term costs”, said Foundation chairman Eilfort. The mass of the
the immigrants, ladies and gentlemen, will ultimately receive basic, old age insurance,
financed by taxes. That is the reality of an immigration not regulated and
taxed, but commanded and tax-financed, ladies and gentlemen.
A functioning social state would before all reduce the poverty of its citizens and lower the burden on the taxpayer. The anti-native ideologies of this
government have, however, entirely other priorities: Giant money flows for an
absurd energy transformation, the complete care of hundreds of thousands of
economic immigrants, the subsidization of other EU states and, soon, all of
Africa. We demand the prioritization of the welfare of our citizens instead of
what is unjustifiable and, instead of a long-term welcome party for illegality,
again the way of right and reason.
37 percent of the Hartz-IV payments go to foreigners who make up only 13
percent of the population. Since 2007, the Hartz-IV payments to foreigners have
doubled to 13 billion euros yearly. The Hartz-IV quotient of foreigners is, at
60 percent, seven times higher than that of the entire population.This government
compels migration of people by the millions who, without having worked or paid
taxes, shall receive the same social benefits as those who must finance those
benefits. In that regard, a Princeton University study indicates, on the basis
of Danish numbers, that a decrease of social benefits leads to a lower
immigration, just as an increase to a higher. So then: Immediately end the
forced suction.
What an absurd situation: The
horrendous costs of unaccompanied minors,
of whom over 40 percent are actually adults. In Aachen, daily care for an
asylum applicant, 13 euros – a Hartz-IV recipient receives 5 euros. The monthly
card in Hamburg for migrants is scarcely 30 euros, for normal seniors over 60
euros. That is nothing other than a policy against one’s own citizens.
In addition to all that are, ja,
the required expenditures for 180,000 new day care places, 2,400 additional
elementary schools, 15,000 new police positions, 2,000 new magistrates for the
wave of asylum applicants and the pensions. BAMF [Federal Office for Migration and
Refugees] president Sommer warns: “Many of the refugees are today in jobs which nevertheless are mostly
in the low-wage sector.” Many migrants would later subside into old age poverty.
Oh, look! Since it is, ja, good to know
that the Bundesbank is pleading that the pension entrance age be further raised
to 69 years. Ever more of our pensioners, who have worked a lifetime, therefore
subside to a Hartz-IV level in the basic security [Grundsicherung]. All this
because this government sets false priorities. Unlimited money for migrants,
yet the German employee, having paid in for decades, no longer receives
anything decent. That is simply a rip-off. The citizens will no longer permit
that.
Health insurance: Already after 15 months, the migrants receive full
benefits. The government makes the payments yet that covers one half the costs.
Thus, despite a record income in 2019, is produced a deficit of billions.
According to one prognosis commissioned by the Bertelsmann Foundation, in 20
years the minus threatens to be almost 50 billion euros. The citizen, we all,
must then pay the bill. Truly open-minded. That is theft with notification.
Matthias W. Birkwald (Linke): Spin! [Meinungsmache]
And almost 8 billion for control of the causes of refugees – money completely
flung away. The living standard of Africa will never correspond with that of
Europe. Even a hammock here earns more than work there. From the money
transference there can yet more can pay for the migration trip here. Zero
usefulness, gigantic damage.
Cities and communities are stuck with the costs. For Hamburg and Saxony,
the federal subsidy covers only a quarter of the real costs. The localities’
old debts debate shall be glossed over by the total overload of migration
costs. And all that, completely without necessity, will be imposed on the
citizens. Even the instrument of self-entry shows that, ja, it is not competent. That is a robbery of 50 billion euros per
year. Migration researchers tell us that a hundred times more migrants could be
cared for near the native region rather than in Europe. The whole humanitarian
embroidery is simply nonsense.
We demand: Finally compare the immigrants’ aids and benefits to the
expenditures. We need the particulars of
the long-term costs in consideration of the extent of providing for the
migrants, of the multiplication of all costs by family stragglers and
followers. Yet the state bears the costs. For the challenge, it will take cash
in hand. Only it is stupid for the citizen that this hand that there takes the
money was previously in his pocket, ladies and gentlemen.
This policy of flooding Germany with migrants, of destroying the social
state by over-extension, of driving the state of law to collapse, is one of dangerous,
political extremism. The voter must manage. We are out of money. From police
and legal training to pensions and health care. Yet the self-deluded, true
believers are shattering this state, and thus permit the verification of their friendly
faces.
Matthias W. Birkwald
(Linke): This state has a surplus!
We need finally a coherent presentation, and not a preemptive theft from
the citizens so as to declare a pseudo-surplus. Nein, I must say to you: If, as at the bakery, each roll requires
an order, then no program of billions shall be glossed over. It is time that
the federal government took up the order duty! [Bonpflicht]
Ulli Nissen (SPD):
Disgusting!
[Translated by Todd Martin]
