{"id":373326,"date":"2018-08-14T13:13:13","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T12:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/german-social-democrats-launch-xenophobic-campaign-about-child-benefits\/"},"modified":"2018-08-14T13:13:13","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T12:13:13","slug":"german-social-democrats-launch-xenophobic-campaign-about-child-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/german-social-democrats-launch-xenophobic-campaign-about-child-benefits\/","title":{"rendered":"German Social Democrats launch xenophobic campaign about child benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>German Social Democrats launch xenophobic campaign about child benefits<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Christopher Lehmann<br \/>\n    <br \/>14 August 2018<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>In the spring, the German government used the so-called BAMF affair, in which the Federal Office for Immigration and Refugees (BAMF) office in Bremen was accused of wrongfully granting asylum to more than a thousand refugees between 2013 and 2016 whose applications had been dismissed in other federal states, in order to whip up anti-refugee sentiment.<\/p>\n<p>Now, it is launching its next xenophobic campaign.<\/p>\n<p>On last Thursday\u2019s \u201cTagesthemen\u201d TV news programme, Social Democratic Party (SPD) mayor S\u00f6ren Link ranted against European Union (EU) nationals who were allegedly flocking to Germany to fraudulently obtain social welfare payments such as child benefits. Since then, leading Social Democrats have been banging the drum for cuts in child support payments to families of European workers and plying racist sentiments in the style of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), among other things.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have about 19,000 people from Romania and Bulgaria in Duisburg, Sinti and Roma. In 2012, we only had 6,000,\u201d Link agitated. \u201cThey do not come for work, but for social benefits.\u201d He had to \u201cdeal with people here, who spill rubbish on the streets and exacerbate the rat problem.\u201d Neighbours felt \u201cdisturbed by mountains of garbage, noise and rat infestations.\u201d He had set up a task force to \u201ctackle\u201d the alleged \u201cproblem properties\u201d of the Sinti and Roma.<\/p>\n<p>Link\u2019s statements are no different from those of the far-right. In a Facebook post on August 9, the AfD parliamentary group leader Alice Weidel wrote almost word for word: \u201cMore and more child support is flowing into other European countries. &#8230; In addition, many cities are sounding the alarm&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/08\/14\/germ-a14.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 German Social Democrats launch xenophobic campaign about child benefits By Christopher Lehmann 14 August 2018 In the spring, the German government used the so-called BAMF affair, in which the Federal Office for Immigration and Refugees (BAMF) office in Bremen was accused of wrongfully granting asylum to more than a thousand refugees between 2013 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-373326","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}