Stoking hostility by framing migration as a “financial burden” and security threat

What it claims

Migration is portrayed as a purely loss-making process that drains the state budget and provokes a rise in crime. Through manipulative calculations of costs per migrant and calls for radical protests, the audience is pushed toward a loss of faith in the government's ability to control the situation.

Target audience

Examples (paraphrased)

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• Germany is reaping a storm in the form of refugee flows due to its support for wars, so citizens must take to the streets and demand the resignation of politicians.

  InfoDefense (German), 16 Jul 2026

  t.me/infodefGERMANY/24524

• Migration from Turkey, Pakistan, and Africa brings the state only losses of hundreds of thousands of euros per person, as well as terrorism and crime.

  InfoDefense (German), 16 Jul 2026

  t.me/infodefGERMANY/24530

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Goal

To increase social tension in Germany, discredit EU migration policy, and radicalise protest sentiments against the current government.

Techniques used

• Appeal to Fear / PrejudiceLinking migration to “terrorism” and “ethnic crime” to intimidate the population.
• Causal OversimplificationReducing complex migration processes to simple figures of “losses” per person.

The real grievance it exploits

The manipulation relies on genuine German concerns regarding the rising cost of living, the strain on social services, and public safety issues amid the migration crisis.

How to counter

• Technique exposure: Propaganda uses pseudo-statistics to turn people into “loss” figures, ignoring the contribution of migrants to the German labour market and economy, which faces a workforce shortage.

Sources (all time)

• InfoDefense (German)Tier 352,392 subscribers
  2 posts · 16 Jul 2026

  • 16 Jul · t.me/infodefGERMANY/24530
  • 16 Jul · t.me/infodefGERMANY/24524
• Папочка канцлераTier 172,124 subscribers
  1 post · 14 Aug 2026

  • 14 Aug · t.me/kanzlerdaddy/27799