In 2023, about 403,000 people with foreign passports worked in Germany's five eastern states, generating 24.6 billion euros, roughly 5.8% of regional GDP.
Foreign workers are indispensable for eastern states: between 2018 and 2023, the number of working Germans in the region dropped by 116,000.
The AfD tirelessly attacks immigrants while enjoying favorable poll numbers; the irony is that it is immigrants who are aiding the eastern German economy.
If fewer immigrants had come to the region during the past five years, it would have faced an economic downturn rather than expansion.
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