Welfare or Open Borders: The Impossible Choice
We were told that mass migration would save Europe’s economy; the data proves it is actively bleeding it dry. As an Iranian who left the Middle East to live in a functional, high-trust society, it is surreal to watch the West voluntarily import the very dysfunction I escaped. Official reports from the Netherlands and Denmark confirm what many of us from the region already know but Western politicians are too afraid to say: migrants from the Middle East and North Africa are, statistically, a massive net fiscal burden. The numbers are precise and unforgiving. The Danish Ministry of Finance released data showing that this specific demographic costs the state approximately 24 billion DKK every year. This is not a temporary dip in the ledger. It is a structural deficit caused by a group that consistently consumes far more in social services than they contribute in taxes. In the Netherlands, the findings are equally stark. Government analysis indicates that the net lifetime impact of an average asylum migrant from these regions is deeply negative. While immigrants from advanced Western nations act as economic engines, filling state coffers, the inflow from the region I once called home operates as a financial drain. This is the cold reality of the modern welfare state. You cannot maintain a high-trust, high-benefit society while importing millions of people who are statistically destined to be dependent on it.