Posted on 10/03/2004 6:51 pm
Re: Immigration Law!
Geschickt. Hey Leute, weist jemand das CDU/CSU-Mitglied, das für die Gespräche zum Thema Zuwanderungsgesetz verantwortlich sein?
Dear Mr. Jürgen Dahlkamp,
From the trust7.com resource I have learned that you are interested in questions which arise around immigration law and would like to get opinions of foreigners which already live here in Germany, especially in the boundaries of so-called green card program. As I am a German green card holder from March 2001, I thought that I would be a good idea to inform you about my opinion and my thoughts considering immigration law.
As you may know, till year 2000 Germany had a one good rule when inviting foreigners from third countries: a foreigner was invited when it was obvious that he would work and that his work in all aspects would only benefit Germany; also he had to leave Germany when because of changes on the market he would become of no more benefit for Germany. This rule worked fine and many foreigners have come to Germany, enjoyed their stay and job here and with time received an unlimited residence permit or German citizenship and thus became the rightful and respected members of German community.
However, in the year 2000 SPD with Mr. Schröder took it for granted that foreigners symbolize a future of Germany and therefore have launched a green card program, which did not require any checks of the labour market and any analysis of possible benefit regarding the applicants. As an argument it was said that each applicant creates three more working places and therefore such a program would only help to reduce an unemployment rate among natives. Considering that many of invited foreigners are now unemployed, I would say that such point of view has shown its complete truthfulness: as it is known, each unemployed green card holder has a right for unemployment benefit and therefore creates working places for new officials which are needed in order to be able to process his application for such a benefit, subsequent appeal and sometimes a claim when foreigner does not fully understand a German law system. Needless to say, that appeals and claims provide even more job opportunities for natives, which should be thankful to their government for it as well as for paying all expenses (as it is well known, normally income of unemployed lies below the limit and therefore father State takes on its shoulders all expenses for such appeals and claims). Moreover, such foreigners also produce new work opportunities for officials and private agents who work in area of employment services: they strive to make their best in order to see that a foreigner gets a new job position and normally succeed in their efforts sometimes after ten months of hard work. Also foreigners need to spend their unemployment benefit and that creates new work places for natives as well. But the role of foreigners in creation of new work places does not end even here: with 10% unemployment rate among native IT-professionals they compete with natives for new and existing work places, which results in additional job for human resources departments as well as for employment offices that need to make all abovementioned tasks for unemployed natives - job which normally would not be necessary in case when green card holders never came to Germany.
Considering everything abovementioned, it is needless to say that green card program resulted in total success and made miracles with unemployment rate in Germany: now even more job places are created for people, who make their best to fight an unemployment and of course, want to get their salaries for their work in such direction. So it is obvious that Germany urgently needs a new immigration law which will allow many more foreigners to come, create even more work places and stimulate even bigger fight vs. unemployment. It is also necessary to improve a situation and give new foreigners an unlimited residence permit at once then they will be able to participate in the process of creation of new work places much longer than 5 years and also will be able to transfer their experiences in such a process to younger people when receiving an earned pension from father State, thus securing a future of Germany.
It is needless to say that during their life here green card holders have become to love Germany which provides them with everything when they are in need and of course do not want to come back to their home countries where they need to work hard in order to get their bread. However, with unaccepted immigration law their future here is unsecured with expiration of 5-years-period and this makes them somewhat frustrated: nobody wants to go back to the country where people must work 10-12 hours per day in order to get just necessaries for living and where no unemployment benefit is paid whatsoever. The situation with limited residence permit also does not satisfy them very much because they would like to get a right for a social aid after they are no more eligible for getting an unemployment benefit which is going to become possible just after new immigration law comes in force. Needless to say that it will improve their life when they have an unemployed wife and children and they of course have deserved a right for a social aid considering how hard they fought for creation of new work places. And such a right will shape a future of Germany even more, because natives will have to work more and more in order to make such a paradise possible.
In conclusion, I would like to state that it is not even necessary for new-coming foreigners to learn German the natives so wonderfully know English that it makes all efforts towards learning German completely needless. This is not my point of view it was proclaimed by SPD with Mr. Schröder when they invited people in Germany who did not know even one German word but I of course fully understand rightfulness of such an attitude and therefore write my letter to you in English.
Best wishes from Mannheim,
Ruslan Fursa
) Green-Cardler betreibt. "Das sind hochbegabte Leute, deren Kinder hier geboren sind, die Deutsch gelernt haben. Die fehlende Sicherheit, wie es weitergeht, ist ihr brennendstes Thema." Seit zwei Wochen hat Hellfeld (!! note: not Detlef von Hellfeld, but Hellfeld - thinks what needs to be done? let's read farther) auf seiner Webseite eine neue Rubrik: "Getting out of Germany" (!! in English, yeah right!)"