German
Bundestag, October 8, 2020, Plenarprotokoll 19/183, pp. 22957-22958.
Herr
President. Right honorable ladies and gentlemen.
The
Alternative für Deutschland here in the Bundestag moves the suspension of the
skilled labor immigration law. Why do we hold that to be necessary? Quite
simple: Because the Corona preventative measures of the Federal government have
thrown our country into chaos and thereby have injured many businesses and
employees. Unemployment has increased almost 30 percent.
Peter Weiss (CDU/CSU- Emmendingen):
It decreases.
The number of positions reported as open has broken down massively. We have 600,000 more unemployed. We have 4 million in part-time work, many of whom will come back to their workplace only once – to clear out their desks.
Peter Weiss (CDU/CSU- Emmendingen):
An impertinence!
All
these people now look to politics and ask: What are you actually doing for
these people?
Michael Grosse-Böhmer (CDU/CSU):
Have you missed the last three months, or what?
The
Federal Agency for Labor regards the wave of bankruptcy still to come upon us. The
government’s Institute for Labor Market and Occupational Research does not
figure on the job losses being quickly compensated. In such a situation, we
hold adherence to the recruitment of foreign skilled labor to be dangerous, irresponsible
and wrong.
It
must now be stated: Domestic skilled labor first – whose livelihood and whose future
must now stand in first place. We want no additional competition in the labor
market for any of those who have now lost their jobs.
Once
we have suspended the skilled labor immigration law, then we shall use the time
to correct this completely failed immigration policy of the Federal government;
since the Federal government’s immigration policy solves no problems, it
creates additional problems.
The
Federal government is responsible for massive wage dumping. We recruit skilled
labor which is ready to make 1,000 to 1,500 euros less per month for jobs
presently here.
Peter Weiss (CDU/CSU- Emmendingen):
That’s not right! The evidence for that!
I
am louder than you.
Peter Weiss (CDU/CSU- Emmendingen):
But you are dumber!
The
Federal government is responsible for an unprecedented immigration into the
social system. Of 100 skilled workers from third states who take a job here, 80
happen to receive Hartz-IV. We have unemployment even in occupations with
shortages. Look at care for the elderly. There, unemployment among Germans has
come back and among foreigners has increased 40 percent.
Susanne Ferschl (Linke): That is
false!
And
that is shortage occupation number one – you all know the numbers, since they
are the numbers of the Federal government.
The
Federal government is responsible for an unprecedented emigration of German skilled
labor. Each year, tens of thousands of Germans leave this country and do not
again return.
Filiz Polat (Greens): Because of
you!
I
hear no one here inquire as to why that is so.
Ladies
and gentlemen, we of the Alternative für Deutschland advance the interests of
the German employees again to the mid-point of political negotiations. Support
us in this. I look forward to an objective debate.
Many thanks.
Michael Grosse-Böhmer (CDU/CSU):
How, please?
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