Migration in Europe

Some recently published numbers on immigration:

Sweden, a self-described “humanitarian superpower,” accepted 163,000 asylum seekers in 2015. A year later, only 500 of these migrants had found work, the Local reports.

The cost of accepting and taking care of these migrants was billions of dollars, according to the Financial Times.

In the Netherlands, 90 percent of Syrian and Eritrean asylum seekers, the largest groups of migrants, remain dependent on social benefits.

Almost none was employed after 18 months in the country, reports Wakker Nederland, a Dutch public broadcaster.

In Germany, all non-Germans make up about 10 percent of the overall population of the country. And yet, they accounted for 30.5 percent of all crime suspects in 2016.

Refugees officially only make up 2 percent of the German population, but accounted for 8.6 percent of all crime suspects.

According to statistics compiled by the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA), the number of migrant crime suspects in 2016 increased by an alarming 52.7 percent. The number of migrants living in Germany only increased by 11 percent in the same time period.

Aydan Özoğuz, the German commissioner for immigration, refugees and integration, told the Financial Times that only a 25 percent of migrants in Germany would find employment in the next five years.

“Many of the first Syrian refugees to arrive in Germany were doctors and engineers, but they were succeeded by many, many more who lacked skills,” Özoğuz said.