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  • 2022-02-11 (xsd:date)
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  • we realise not just now that several thousand criminals have made their way into Germany to cause trouble here." Since Germany is currently experiencing a shortage of specialists we want to specifically look into the first part of Brandners claim and analyse if he is correct in his assertion that not almost only urgently needed specialists have been let into the country. Unemployment among refugees is still a major problem To verify Branders claim it is necessary to take a look at the specialists immigrating into the country as well as the qualifications and the employment rates of immigrants in Germany. Since the Alternative für Deutschland primarily focuses on refugees in their campaign we interpreted his statement to be directed against refugees in particular and will focus on those in our analysis rather than regular immigrants. First and foremost the immigration monitor of the Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) reveals that many asylum seekers in Germany are still unemployed. At the beginning of the refugee crisis in August 2014 the unemployment rate among all refugees was at 38.3%. It reached its peak in 2016 at 53.4% and has since decreased to 33.8% by August 2021. Corresponding to this development the employment rate saw some positive changes as well. Between 2014 and 2016 it dropped from 29.7% to 15.2% but managed to raise back up to 39.9% by August 2021. Despite this improvement (en)
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  • The German right-wing party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) ranks among the harshest critics of the countries refugee policy. In November 2021, the representative spokesman of the party, Stephan Brandner, released a statement in which he claims that not only urgently needed specialists have been let into the country. We rate this claim as mostly true. On November 1st 2021, the Federal Criminal Police Office Bundeskriminalamt (BKA) released a new statistic on organized crime in Germany which – according to Stephan Brandner, the representative spokesman of the far-right party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) – shows a clear connection between refugees and criminality. In a statement he claims: In 2015 (en)
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