The German Government approves regulate the immigration of 'poverty'

From left to right, the Minister of Interior, the Minister of Education, and the Minister of Employment, the August 27 / Tobias SCHWARZ (AFP)

"The misleading, flies! ". With this slogan the Christian Social Union of Bavaria (CSU) began late last year a campaign to prevent the arrival of Bulgarian and Romanian workers - particularly gypsy - arriving in the country to take advantage of the generous social system that prevailed in the country. Almost eight months after, the German Government bow to the pressure of one of the partners in the coalition and adopted, this Wednesday, a sensitive and controversial package of measures to be regular, with unprecedented mano dura, the so-called "immigration of poverty". The package of laws, which was presented this Wednesday to the press by the minister of the Interior, Thomas de Maiziere and his colleague, Andrea Nahles, awards, among other measures, a six-month period for community workers looking for a job in Germany. If you have not found a job at that time, will be forced to leave the territory Germano.

When the law comes into force (no date has yet been set for that the draft law will be subject to the federal Parliament), the authorities also have in their possession the resource to expel and forbid their return to the country for five years, to all the immigrants that have been tried through deception, receive the so-called "aid for children". To prevent fraud, all applicants for social assistance must submit a tax identification number, a measure that can ensure, for example, the number of people that make up the family of the applicant. "The freedom of movement is an indispensable part of the European integration, but we cannot close our eyes to the problems that it can arouse", said the minister of Maiziere. " !Free movement, if; abuse, not!, Andrea Nahles pointed out. The two Ministers also noted that the package of measures includes a significant financial assistance to the regions that have been affected by the arrival of immigrants. In the course of the year, the Government will make available to the federated states a contribution of 25 million euros and is in study another pack of 250 million euros. The idea of tightening the arrival to the country of the "poor immigrants", that were baptized as "dangerous social tourists" by Horst Seehofer, head of the regional government of Bavaria, who gave the order to use the dangerous weapons of populism to hinder the arrival to the country of the Romanian and Bulgarian workers that benefited from the right of free movement from January 1 of this year. "We do not want to see the immigration in our social security system," said the bavarian political, to justify the odious campaign that started his party, and in its time caused a dangerous crises within the government. To prevent further harm to the unity of the government, the chancellor Angela Merkel and the vice-chancellor and minister of Economy, Sigmar Gabriel agreed in January, creating a commission of experts to analyze the problem and seeking solutions designed to prevent the fraud of social benefits. The work of the experts was summarized in a document of 133 pages that received the pompous title of "legal issues and challenges in the use of the social systems of social security by the nationals of the member States of the EU", whose first draft was submitted in March the Council of Ministers. The Government's decision was described as "cheap populism" by the Greens, while the powerful German Confederation of Trade Unions (DGB) pointed out that the experts' report did not give details of the fraud that you want to fight.