Although one often hears the leftist-liberal arguments from Western Europe that migration is a necessity for the European economy and population, these and similar claims are constantly being proven baseless in France. It is no different in other European countries where mass migration is supported by the government.

New data shows that migrants account for nearly half of French food aid recipients, bolstering critics that assert that migrants, on the whole, are not actually a net benefit to Western economies but end up being an enormous financial burden.

Data from France’s National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE) shows that migrants are vastly over-represented among applicants for food benefits, with 44 per cent being immigrants, compared to 10 per cent of any metropolitan population on average. However, this share may be actually higher than INSEE indicates, as the agency is basing this figure only on the number of people who filled out the Food Aid survey; it also only included those who could answer their surveys in French. A self-administered questionnaire in English was offered to non-French speakers, but too few people agreed to even fill it out, so INSEE decided not to use the data.

However, these non-French speaking applicants are estimated to be some 420,000, which means this group of immigrants constitutes some 14% of immigrant applicants. The INSEE reports that there are between 3.2 and 3.5 million French people who have utilized food benefits in the last year, which means approximately 1.5 million of them have been migrants.

It is worth remembering that a previous study by renowned academic Jean-Paul Gourevitch showed that migrants cost the French state €25 billion a year and that only about a quarter of migrants have a regular, sustainable job.

L’universitaire Jean-Paul Gourévitch : « Toutes les enquêtes montrent que 5 ans après, seulement 33% des migrants ont trouvé du travail » « L’immigration coûte beaucoup plus cher que ce qu’elle nous rapporte, mon travail scientifique situe ce déficit entre 20 et 25 milliards » pic.twitter.com/UavWycMiI1

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Other European countries face similar circumstances. Germany, for example, has indicated that it plans to spend €36 billion on migrants this year alone, and that an extraordinary number of these migrants will remain unemployed for years.