If you believe FDP, n German asylum system is a vessel that contains a lot of people who do not belong re: economic refugees and poverty migrants, people who do not seek protection in Germany, but only a job. In a paper on immigration policy, FDP chief Christian Lindner writes: "Due to a lack of alternatives (...) The right of asylum is used by different groups in order to reach Germany. " Party vice Wolfgang Kubicki called at beginning of week to finally "let pressure out of boiler". The pressure is to be escaped by means of a law. It has been debated for decades, but has failed until now on resistance of Union: Immigration Act. Well, under a possible black-yellow-green government, it could finally come.

The drafts, which Greens and FDP have presented, vary in detail, but aim in same direction: people from non-EU countries are to be given access to German labour market. If you have an offer from a German employer in your pocket or want to search for a job at your own expense, you should be allowed to come to Germany. Under certain conditions, this is already possible today, but usually only for very well educated people. And y often fail at a jumble of rules that are distributed across several laws. For example, tough procedures you have to undergo in order to have a vocational qualification recognised.

Germany may be a magnet for refugees, and labour migrants are less attracted to it. Of nearly 700,000 people who immigrated 2016 from non-EU countries, only about 50,000 had a working visa and only 8,000 Bluecard, that European counterpart to American Green Card, of which Germany once had mass influx of doctors, Engineers and IT specialists.

An immigration law from a cast could change that. It is good that FDP and greens are on table in coalition negotiations. It is a good thing that pressure on Union is rising: at weekend, for example, Association of Family Entrepreneurs demanded that law should come, and quickly. Because many industries could not grow without foreign workers, because shortage of skilled workers due to demographic change and pension 63 become more dramatic – and because EU foreigners were not enough to occupy vacancies.

Immigration law also suggests that labour migrants can quickly find a job. The Nuremberg Institute for Labour Market and Vocational Research (IAB) has compared its chances with those of refugees: likelihood of having found a job after two years in Germany is about twice as high. According to IAB, this does not only mean that migrants with a work visa are particularly well trained and prepared. But above all with fact that y have to cope with fewer hurdles on way to job. The migration economist Herbert Brücker of IAB refore recommends that more work visas be issued, also due to low-skilled workers for whom we need: cleaners, waiters, harvesters. "We have to cut thresholds," he says.

This article comes from time No. 42/2017. Here you can read entire output.

An immigration law could prevent migrants from living in social services. It could ensure that people who want to go to Germany, but have little chance of protection, no longer get into a dinghy, but seek a work visa. But it could also go backwards – when it is misunderstood as a substitute for a far-sighted refugee and integration policy.

The FDP suggests that law not only increases number of skilled workers, but also automatically reduces number of refugees. Wolfgang Kubicki said earlier this week, with an immigration law, it would not have given high numbers of refugees since September 2015. For years before, especially people from Western Balkans in Germany applied for asylum, that may be vote. For time since autumn 2015 not. About 70 percent of people who have applied for asylum in Germany last year came from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, where war and terror reign. They have not strayed into German asylum system and have increased pressure in boiler unnecessarily. They often had good reasons to seek shelter, many of m were allowed to stay. If you want to avoid permanent social benefits, you also have to get access to jobs – no matter how good or bad y are trained.

It is already foreseeable that Union will only agree to an immigration law if asylum laws are tightened. She wants to continue to expose family reunification and to accommodate refugees more often in camps. They are often so secluded that it is difficult to search for jobs. They are full of men who need to look for work, but are in ir minds somewhere else: with ir wives and children, who had to leave m behind and not be allowed to catch up. People like you are not migrant workers. They do not need immigration law, but protection – and eventually a job.

Date Of Update: 16 October 2017, 12:02