• @baru@lemmy.world
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    128 months ago

    If respondents have the perception their country takes in too many immigrants

    Pretty much any right wing party in the Netherlands lied about the number of asylum seekers. Then they purposely mix up the number of immigrants and asylum seekers. Plus asylum seekers are the latest group to be blamed for government failures.

    People are giving significant tax benefits for work immigrants. But give them a different name (knowledge workers), so they can continue to pretend most immigrants are asylum seekers. While in reality asylum seekers make up a tiny portion of the immigrants in the Netherlands.

    If I see stuff about immigrants I’m always suspicious. Likely the complaint is about asylum seekers and equalling every immigrant as an asylum seeker.

    • @crispy_kilt@feddit.de
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      8 months ago

      It’s exactly the same in Switzerland. The economy profits tremendously from highly educated EU immigrants (of which there is a fuckton), but the right wing parties whine constantly about the asylum seekers (of which there are comparatively very few) and blame them for made up and actual problems

    • Kühe sind toll
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      08 months ago

      Same in Germany. I hate to say it, but we are actively going towards a time about 80 years ago. Yet our democratic parties are scared to ban the AfD(our right wing party where you’re legally allowed to call one of their leaders a Nazi).