Three in four Germans believe the federal government is failing to combat illegal immigration, a new report has revealed.
According to a recent YouGov poll conducted on behalf of the German Press Agency, 75 percent of citizens are discontent with the left-wing coalition government’s lax approach to border control.
Just 14 percent are satisfied with the current efforts, while 2 percent view the issue as unproblematic.
The findings expose the disastrous consequences of mass immigration, with the vast majority of Germans calling for stricter measures against illegal migration and questioning the overall benefits of immigration over the past decade.
The concern is shared across the political spectrum, with a majority of all party voters — with the exception of the Greens — critical of the government’s efforts.
Alarmingly, 71,000 unauthorized entries have been recorded in the first 10 months of this year despite the reintroduction of border controls. The figure, while down from last year’s 127,500, remains uncomfortably high for a majority of Germans.
🇪🇺‼️ An overwhelming majority of EU citizens are against the mass immigration policy imposed on them by Brussels and their respective governments.
Most do not believe that Europe needs immigration to address its demographic challenges.
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— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) May 14, 2024Discontent regarding immigration as a whole extends beyond Germany to wider Europe. Remix News reported back in May on an EU-wide poll revealing that more than 7 in 10 Europeans think their country takes in too many migrants, while just 39 percent across the bloc thought that Europe “needs immigration today.”
Four out of five respondents in every EU member state believed the bloc needed to take more action to combat illegal immigration.
Germans are no different, with one in two respondents from the YouGov polling of the view that immigration has been bad for the country over the past 10 years. Just 15 percent of citizens defended the liberal open-border policy of successive federal governments.
Immigration is expected to be a key issue in February’s federal election. The opposition Christian Democratic Union (CDU), which is expected to become the largest party in the Bundestag, has talked tough on deportations and greater control, but voters remain skeptical given its previous record in government under then-chancellor Angela Merkel.
Meanwhile, the hardline Alternative for Germany (AfD) is set to benefit from current disillusionment among the electorate to become the second-largest party in the federal parliament for the first time, and left-wing socially conservative newcomers could garner 8 percent of the vote, adding to the parliamentary majority of mass immigration skeptics.
Germany, INSA poll:
CDU/CSU-EPP: 31.5% (-0.5)
AfD-ESN: 19.5% (+0.5)
SPD-S&D: 17% (+1)
GRÜNE-G/EFA: 11.5% (-0.5)
BSW-NI: 8%
FDP-RE: 4.5% (+0.5)
LINKE-LEFT: 3% (-1)
+/- vs. 2-6 December 2024
Fieldwork: 6-9 December 2024
Sample size: 2,004
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