Soundwave said: I think an easier and cheaper suggestion I'd have for some of these European countries is hire more of integrated immigrants who speak the local language and know the local customs to go interface with new arrivals immediately so they understand more quickly how to assimilate and also understand and see opportunities for themselves. I was watching a video with a Swedish cop who is fully Swedish but was brought to Sweden from a young age from Afghanistan and he was asking the government if he could go help and speak to new arrivals and the government's response was it wasn't needed because just getting people in shelters was the main priority, assimilation is not.
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It is a bit understandable, as getting them somewhere to live is a priority and a very difficult task. You can't just gie them homes because then everybody looking for affordable homes will go riot against it. You can't build them homes because all but the most ardent supporters of the refugees and immigrants will then go NIMBY and most even BANANA. This leaves the politicians only with the choice of herding them into empty buildings and container cities (which of course will create backlash against them because the immigrants will then not be treated right.
However, having people understanding the languages of the immigrants and refugees administrating these housing facilities would be a good thing to do. The problem here lies that there's so many coming in at the same time that there just aren't enough of them to serve them all.
Assimilation is not a priority because most of the new immigrants from africa and near east are coming under a refugee status. Which means that they may lose that status and then have to go home when the crisis or reason for their flight in their home country is over. If they want to stay, they have to make the necessary steps (either by integrating and earning citizenship or by marrying into a local family) themselves.