Merz: Most Syrian refugees in Germany expected to return home in three years

I mean, the articles you linked kind of state the opposite of your stance. They talk outright about having major shortages in German healthcare fields at all levels, from entry-level support staff to doctors, even with refugees over-represented in the field; and how refugees and foreign nationals form a serious component (from a tenth to a fifth depending on which part of the healthcare field is being discussed) of those workfields - with Syrians being outright stated as being the largest foreign national group in most of them. Even if this only comes out to Syrians being \~5-8% of the total workforce - well. Speaking as someone who has done this sort of work before (adult care, at the entry/daily support level) if you don't think that losing 5-8% of an already understaffed workforce isn't going to be a big deal, you clearly do not know what you're talking about. It's a rough, difficult, frustrating job even when you're fully staffed. When you aren't fully staffed, it's a rough, difficult frustrating job that you not infrequently have to pull double shifts on and end up getting burned out on - once a hiring crisis starts in these fields, it takes years and years and years to resolve because of that: because no one wants to stick around to deal with that shit (and I can't blame them at all!) And the result is lower quality care for the people in your society least capable of fully caring for themselves, for years to come (at a time when a lot of them don't have years left to wait for improvement.) That's really what you're calling for when you blithely call these groups 'a burden'.

With that I agree wholeheartedly, but both you and I know that this is not what's gonna happen. The people who have been deported over the last few years were mostly law abiding citizens, because those could be localised. The troublemakers cannot be traced that easily, so they are not being deported. Same shit as with ICE. They deport mostly regular people that even the IRS won't touch, since they know that there is a benefit for the US if they stay in the country. The true criminals can barely be located and thus remain unscathed

Where did you get the idea that Syrian refugees are protesting en masse for sharia law and support the new Syrian president? A large proportion of Syrian refugees are in fact Kurds or Christians or from secular middle-class backgrounds.

you hit a nail, but is not lacking man power. Labor has a price centered around potential workforce competing for limited amount of positions for a certain payment, thats not bad, thats normal. Add migration for whatever altruistic reason you want, you suddenly gain a key to influence the price of work, it is fine unless side effects create headache around the natural social foundation. The 'lack' of workforce or missing expertise argument is hammered into you to go along and accept artificial pressure in competition for the same jobs and market. There is literally no society on the planet that ever failed because of people lacking to do less complex jobs for fair payment. Neither is expertise in one of the most sophisticated education systems on the planet a problem. Price matters, even for the underlaying social contract that naturally gets challenged. integration in that context solely means new participants can sustain their permanent participation into the same assumed social foundation. Turns out diasporas tend to have difficulties therefor help their own, very fine, but not necessarily automatic results in supporting the same foundation you assumed to be valid for all - from there you face 'parallel' proposals that challenge your assumptions. It can be fruitful yet it must cause friction, which you did not expect.

It’s NIMBY in places where transit is underfunded and therefore bad. Where transit is good (Europe, Singapore) or traffic is really terrible (big cities of Asia) people are generally in favour of expansions

Interestingly there're even more actual numbers and they don't match with your numbers: https://www.zeit.de/arbeit/2026-03/arbeitsagentur-syrien-arbeitsmarkt-andrea-nahles-friedrich-merz-gxe