Germany To Hand Migrants Debit Cards Rather Than Cash

Not only is the Red/Green Government allowing the invaders free access to Germany, they are financing the jihad, as well. Do they really hate their country that much?

From The European Conservative

By Michael Curzon

Critics call move “symbolic politics” while government claims it will “combat a key incentive” for illegal migration.

Olaf Scholz’s left-wing traffic light coalition has agreed to introduce special debit cards for asylum seekers in an attempt to control how and where they spend state benefits.

The scheme has been able to move forward after the Greens, who had been blocking it for months, “buckled” under pressure from their Social Democratic Party (SPD) and Free Democratic Party (FDP) coalition partners, Bild reports.

A new draft law designed to control the benefits handed to asylum seekers and prevent this money from being sent to friends and family in their home countries will now be put to the Bundestag, Germany’s federal parliament. The law only deals with the manner in which payments of taxpayers’ cash are transferred and does not alter the amount of money handed to migrants seeking asylum.

The policy comes as the three parties in the German coalition government continue to plummet in the polls, while the populist Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) and centre-right Christian Democrats gain support.

The establishment press was quick to identify the policy as an attempt to gain popularity among what it dubbed the “far right.” Members of the far-left Die Linke party, including party chair Janine Wissler, described it as “totally discriminatory and stigmatising for those affected.”

Wissler added, in a statement that sceptical right-wing voters will likely agree with, that Scholz’s coalition was engaging in “symbolic politics and a distraction debate.”

Lawmakers say that tracked debit cards will prevent migrants from using cash benefits for wrongful purposes. FDP parliamentary group deputy Lukas Köhler told Bild that this law would help to stop “the financing of illegal smuggling gangs.”

In doing so, we are bringing order to our asylum system and combating a key incentive for [illegal] immigration.

The party’s parliamentary group vice-president, Wolfgang Kubicki, also told Welt that where the scheme had already been implemented on a district level, “their results are very encouraging.” He added:

And if we find that people are simply leaving the country again because they don’t get cash but instead payment cards, then we no longer need to deport anyone, because then it will work itself out.

Austria’s Chancellor Karl Nehammer called for a similar solution when he outlined his plan for the country in January—but wanted to go further. Nehammer suggested no cash benefits should be provided to migrants or refugees in the first five years; only in-kind benefits and earmarked vouchers. Comments from Austrians on social media following the German decision largely appeared to be supportive of importing the idea. “This means they [migrants] get the help they need, but the money still stays in Austria and is not sent to Syria, Afghanistan, etc.,” one comment on X said. 

Pictured: German Chancellor Olaf Scholz