About every month or two, German journalists will pick up another fake migrant juvenile story and lay out how the 'kid' faked out the German authorities. This has been going on since 2013, and continually irks the German public because it shows how easily it is to deceive or circumvent the system.
So this case is oddly enough....not about a guy pretending to be a kid, but about a woman portraying herself as a kid.
The basic story told by Focus news magazine this morning.....centers on a woman who came out of Ethiopia in 2012. She arrived in Germany, saying she was 15 years old. The truth of the matter was the young lady being actually 26 years old (an 11-year difference).
Once you establish yourself as a 'kid', you fall into the category of unaccompanied minor refugee. You get automatic acceptance as a refugee, guaranteed to get the German version of the 'green-card'. People can laugh about this automatic standard, but the Germans have attached themselves and can't find any way to escape it.
For three years, she carried on the act. Then in 2015, the authorities kinda figured things out. The amount in this 'trick' that was wasted? 145,000 Euro. This comes to a high number because these 'kids' have to be in a special home, and be adult-supervised, with schooling provided.
The German authorities are a bit angry over this and have attempted to drag the woman into court, and settle on some return of their money. You and I can laugh over amount, and any hope of getting the money back.....but I suspect if she just offered to pay them 15,000 Euro over ten years.....they'd accept that. Added to this mess is the fact that this occurred in the German state of Bavaria, where they hate this type of fraud more than most other states.
Fixing this? Back in the spring of 2018, they had the woman in court, and she was seven months pregnant. The court suspended the case because it felt bad over stressing the woman at this point. But it's come back up now.
How many fake juveniles exist in Germany? It's an unknown number. It might be dozens, hundreds, thousands or even tens of thousands. Mandatory testing? You would think at some point, that the political folks would come to this question. Doctors are pretty divided....there is a test for this age thing which is considered reliable....but a large segment of the doctor profession doesn't want to participate in this business.
Even within Merkel's coalition....it's not really that clear if they could pass mandatory tests. State-wise, it opens up a Pandoras Box if you go this direction.
The general problem I see....particularly among guys who do this trick, is if you are 27 and arrive to say you are 14 years old, you open up this retirement problem.
Imagine being a fake 54 year old guy (having been in German for 30 plus years), and your age is really 67. Physically, you've slowed down and most others in your age bracket can retire. You can't.
Imagine now, that there are 20,000 such fake juveniles around Germany today....all giving a 10 to 12 year age difference. At some point around 2050 to 2060....all of this will come up with a public problem of early retirement for people who faked up their age, and some books will be written about the fake age thing, and how the public got 'screwed'.
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