AfD on migration and integration

The AfD wants to hold a statewide referendum on migration policy within 100 days. Voters would decide on turning people back at the borders, detaining everyone who is required to leave but does not, and benefits in kind only for asylum seekers. A yes vote is meant to back the state government in the expected dispute with the federal government.

The AfD wants people to vote on migration. The vote is about three things. People without a right to stay should be turned back at the border. People who must leave but stay should be locked up. Asylum seekers should get goods, not money.

Three measures would be on the ballot: turning back all migrants without a right of residence at the external borders, pre-deportation detention for all foreigners who ignore their duty to leave, aiming for a 100 percent deportation rate, and benefits in kind in place of all other social benefits for asylum seekers. With a majority, the AfD would build a state border police force and greatly expand detention capacity. The payment card, which the platform considers open to abuse, would be replaced by in-kind benefits. The AfD expects conflicts with the federal government and would use every legal tool the state has.

The AfD wants to pull Baden-Württemberg out of the nationwide distribution of refugees and impose a general intake stop. It would last until the borders are again protected against illegal crossings and is meant to put more pressure on the federal government.

Germany spreads refugees across all states. The AfD no longer wants to take part. Baden-Württemberg should take in nobody new. This should last until the borders are protected. The AfD wants to pressure the federal government this way.

The Königsteiner Schlüssel (a distribution formula) sets the share of asylum seekers each state takes in. The platform announces the state's exit from this system. The intake stop would be general and end only once the AfD considers the borders secure again. The measure is meant to push the federal government to change course.

The AfD wants the state interior ministry to treat returns as a priority. People without a right to stay are to leave the country quickly. Asylum seekers are to receive benefits in kind instead of cash.

The AfD wants more people without a right to stay to leave. The interior ministry should deal with this first. Asylum seekers should no longer get money. They should get goods instead, such as food and clothes.

The program demands that people who entered illegally or have no right of residence leave as soon as possible. Immigration that the party sees as aimed at social benefits is to end. For asylum seekers, benefits in kind are to replace cash payments.

The AfD wants to grant Bürgergeld (citizen's income) to people without German citizenship only after at least ten years of regular work in Germany, and then limit it to one year. Refugees from Ukraine would get the same benefits as asylum seekers. The platform calls Bürgergeld an incentive for illegal immigration.

The AfD wants to limit Bürgergeld for foreigners. Bürgergeld is the basic welfare payment. Foreigners must first work ten years in Germany. Then they get it for one year only. Refugees from Ukraine would get less, like asylum seekers.

The ten years of work must have been subject to social insurance and without supplementary benefits. For this group, benefits would last one year at most. Ukrainian war refugees would be taken out of Bürgergeld. The platform also considers it unfair that recognized asylum seekers are treated fully equally in the social security systems without having paid in. The AfD wants to act against this through the Bundesrat.

The AfD wants to deport more people who have no right to stay. To do so, the deportation authority and the responsible police units would get more staff, and the task would be spread across the four Regierungspräsidien (regional administrative authorities). The platform points to many failed deportation attempts.

The AfD wants to deport more people. It means people with no right to stay. The authority and the police would get more staff. Four regional state offices would handle deportations.

According to the platform, more than 23,000 rejected asylum seekers were required to leave at the end of 2024, and 7,600 attempts led to 2,900 deportations. The deportation authority would be decentralized and placed directly under the heads of the regional authorities. Immigration administration would be concentrated in counties and large district towns and supervised solely by the regional authorities, to rule out party-political influence. The AfD wants to use this to counter false identity claims and resistance to deportation.

The AfD wants to give asylum seekers in-kind benefits only wherever possible and end what it calls misuse of the payment card. Asylum seekers in ongoing proceedings and rejected applicants would no longer get work permits. In the platform's view, the support offered in Germany attracts people.

The AfD wants to stop giving asylum seekers money. They would get things like food and clothes directly. Asylum seekers would not be allowed to work. This also applies to rejected applicants. The state should count health costs exactly.

The work ban would apply no matter how long someone has been in the country. The cost of medical treatment for asylum seekers would be recorded separately across the state. The platform calls health care a particularly large cost factor and sees asylum seekers as partly favored by the Asylum Seekers' Benefits Act.

The AfD wants to stop housing asylum seekers in county and municipal shelters. Instead, there would be central arrival and departure centers and interim shelters near the four Regierungspräsidien (regional administrative authorities). According to the platform, this would make deportations and in-kind benefits easier.

The AfD does not want asylum seekers spread across towns and villages. They would live in large centers. These centers would be near the four regional state offices. Only recognized asylum seekers would move to towns.

Only people with recognized asylum status would be distributed to counties and municipalities. The platform points to public discontent over new shelters and to security risks it associates with them. It criticizes the state premier's announcement that initial reception facilities would be built even against local resistance.

The AfD does not want refugees to be housed in social housing. It blames immigration for rising rents and the housing shortage and calls for returning foreigners who are required to leave.

The AfD says immigration makes homes scarce and costly. Refugees should not get social housing. Foreigners with no right to stay should leave the country.

According to the platform, the state lacks more than 200,000 homes, and immigration has made the situation worse. The party stresses that renters and people with low and middle incomes are also entitled to have their interests considered. To ease the housing market, it demands that existing law be enforced consistently and that foreigners without a right to stay be returned.