Last night, via the ARD public channel.....the Maischberger public forum show came on (awful late).
So in the middle of the show....the CDU political figure Julie Klöckner got asked a migration question, and responded: “Not every immigration is a gain for Germany.”
If you'd asked this type of question among the public...probably two-thirds of German society would have readily agreed with Klöckner. Prior to 2016, it might have been three-quarters of the public against Klöckner's comment. That's how much the nation has changed in the past decade.
The chief problem here....in this discussion.....it's nearly impossible to sit and rate success or failure stories with migration in Germany.
You could assess a hundred Ghana folks from the past decade, and find a 99-percent success story to tell.
If you went to just 18-year old males? Well...the statistics might be decent, but you might find 5-percent of the crowd who haven't found a path to 'fitting-in' and have been detained by the police on a couple of occasions. In this scenario, a few bad 'eggs' have spoiled the basket.
More of a male-versus-female problem? You can go and line up a hundred female migrants (ages 18 to 40) and find almost none of them have ever faced the police and almost all have been highly motivated to 'fit'.
The general issue here....almost every single German has some opinion, and it is provoking discussions. Germans will readily admit....the birth-rate is a problem, and accepting migration has to occur. But they'd like to find the perfect migrants, and that's a bit of a challenge.
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