You claimed that immigration lowered wages and was promoted by business leaders to lower labor costs. The video mentions how many studies have shown that that's not true.
It is perfectly legitimate to say that this is more about culture and identity than about facts and numbers, but:
a) "I've been through war, I'm not afraid of hardship" should not be the standard applied to what is or isn't politically desirable. By that logic anything short of an atomic bomb being dropped in Europe is okay. I have somewhat higher expectations for material wellbeing and so have most Europeans.
b) Immigration is an issue that goes beyond easily measurable factors, but to say that demoscopes were wrong in their prognosis of the US election result and therefor you distrust studies that simply summarize and analyse past events and don't care about facts and numbers and scientific studies is ... surprising. It also doesn't fit your usual rational, science-based take on most things.
My logic is combination of logic and empirical evidence. So the guy that just says for the 30 minutes "the studies shows" isn't that much of an argument. I didn't develop my level of intellect simply by taking whatever is offered to me. This isn't how a genuine intellectualism should work.
Therefore I will give you my take on all this and why I think that the studies present the wrong picture. Number one reason is because you are looking it strictly from the German perspective and not everyone in EU has such cards. My own workers are complaining online that as we are become immigrant country for the first time recently that they have various extra difficulties. Since current ability to import any amount of workers is simply too much of a tilt in the labor market. The problem is that more developed EU countries can offer much higher wages than the poorer ones. Therefore since we are all in the single market people can just leave and move to the more developed EU country. However here we are hitting the problem that wasn't mentioned in the video, if we allow free movement of people what are the looses for the country of origin. In other words if people can just leave then what is really the point of organizing free college for them ? If you can always import more 3rd worlders what is really the point of having quality socialized healthcare. After all with which doctors you will even organize such a system since half of them moved to Germany or some similar EU member (since they pays much more). However most of west European scholars are just too lazy or shortsighted to go into this direction. Or they simply don't mind the whole process.
What is extra problematic is that my local importers of workers seem to be people of questionable morals. They bring in workers that have to pay them a fee for all of that every month. Not to mention that most of these people then live with 500 Euros a month and they put them into some kinds of barracks in the outskirts. What means that they can work for less than local worker and through that they nudge the whole market. The fact that most of the importing is done by foreign corporations is also a red flag. Since locals are loosing their own local market to what is borerline unfair practice. If you remember at the start of COVID we had a chat about those meat packing plants in Germany that became large spreaders of COVID. And this is basically it, poor working conditions that are bordering on slavery. So if immigrants are working in borderline slalvery it wouldn't be long before locals have to do it as well. Especially as the number of imigrants are growing.
Therefore I have the guts to say this is all nonsense based on pure greed.
Plus things are getting even worse. As my workers are going to Germany or some other place like that we are loosing our ability to reproduce. Demography is bad as it is but this will evidently spill the glass completely. What means that we will need to import plenty of 3rd world workers for all kinds of positions. However once you do that you are evidently going into the so called "population replacement". Thus far the process is in the early stages but in a few decades the place could be unrecognizable. And then all the media are going "OMG, far right this, far right that". What is simply because far right are the only ones that have the intention of challenge this circus. What are their motives is another thing but increasing amount of people will take this pill, just about everything suggests that. What is exactly why I said that the only thing that mass immigration will do is put far right at the helm. What basically means the end of EU in it's current form. What begs the question is this really worth it.
Regarding the war, yes the example is extreme but in my view it is vald. Since this cleary shows how passive has become the logic of western Europe. As soons as there is a problem you have to call someone else to fix it. Plus if some coporations have less of a profit ... oh the horror. I used this argument exactly since we are now basically in open war with Russia, but everyone just walks in circless and hopes that US will fix it. You just can't expect that every time someone else will do the real work for you. I mean you can but the odds are that you will eventually evaporate. What will be if the polls are correct and Trump is reelected and after that he cuts help for Ukraine and allows Putin to march over Ukraine into eastern parts of EU ? Plus if Le Pen wins the French nukes are probably also off the table (she has a shoot). What means that the Putin can basically just march into Berlin. Also can you really guarantte that the Turks in Germany will not help him in such a scenario? (especially if we consider various recent event) You simply can't always take the easier route and hope that things will get solved through transactions and talk. However mass immigration was made to do just that, as long as money rotates we should just say that everything is fine. But this isn't how the world works. Things are much more complicated than "money and best wishes".
This is why I don't buy into "official data" you are offering me.
