Statistics from mandatory language courses offered to migrants in Germany show a dismal success rate. Representatives of the Right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party say that this demonstrates that migrants have little will to integrate into German society.
Asylum-seekers who come to Germany are required to complete a “German integration course” which includes lessons in the German language. The statistics for this year show that 45.7% of migrants who took the language test — equivalent to approximately 62,000 students — failed to reach the B1 level, which is the ability to hold a simple conversation in German, on their first attempt, according to a report by the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung.
Of those who failed and then took the course a second time, 78% of them failed the second exam.
The trend has been growing worse in recent years. This year, 77.6% of migrants failed the language test, while in 2017 only 65.7% failed.
Further, it has been revealed that last year, some teachers of the language courses passed their students despite the fact that they had failed to reach the B1 level.
The Federal Office for Migration and Refugees, which is in charge of the courses, has been blamed for the poor results, and the budget for migrant language lessons has tripled in recent years — in 2018, 874 million euros were spent on the effort. This was up from only 269 million euros in 2015. But despite the higher spending, and although better supervision was promised, migrants’ performance continues to decline.
“It is unacceptable that the taxpayer-funded integration programmes run into the hundreds of millions,” René Springer, an MP from the AfD, said about the results. “The high dropout rates in recent years show that many migrants lack the necessary ‘learning culture’ or the will to integrate. The aim must be for immigration to proceed in such a way that it offers recognisable added value to our society.”
Statistics published last year revealed that 40% of people on welfare in Germany are migrants, and German taxpayers pay more than 4 billion euros every month to support migrants, as previously reported by Voice of Europe.
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We don’t want them to ‘integrate’.
We want them OUT.
Access to White people is NOT a human right
Why is it moral for brown people to not want to live in a brown country but immoral for White people to not want to live in a brown country?