AfD on migration and integration

The AfD wants the Bavarian police to carry out regular border checks together with the Federal Police. The aim is to prevent unauthorized entry.

The AfD wants more checks at the border. The Bavarian police should check there regularly. They should work together with the Federal Police. The goal is that fewer people enter without permission.

The platform calls this plan the "Grenzschutzoffensive Bayern" (Bavarian border protection offensive). It would be based on cooperation agreements between Bavaria and the Federal Police. These agreements are meant to make sure the checks are lawful. The platform ties the demand to criticism of an "open borders" policy, which the AfD says endangers security.

The AfD wants to restrict immigration to highly qualified workers, cap it numerically and usually make it temporary. Citizenship would again follow the principle of descent that applied until 1999. Naturalization should primarily serve German interests.

The AfD wants to let in only a small number of very well-trained workers. Most of them should stay only for a set time. Children should again get a German passport mainly through their parents. That was the rule until 1999.

The platform speaks of uncontrolled mass immigration whose consequences, in the AfD's view, can hardly be managed in the long run. It calls for measures against illegal immigration to protect social security and public finances, and warns of Islamization. Labor migration should be controlled, generally time-limited and always subject to a fixed cap. On nationality law, the party wants to return to the pre-1999 rule under which citizenship is derived from the parents.

The AfD wants to deport all foreigners who are required to leave within six months at most and aims for a 100 percent deportation rate in Bavaria. Church asylum should end immediately because, in the party's view, it blocks lawful deportations.

Some foreigners are required to leave Germany. The AfD wants to deport all of them within six months. Churches should no longer be allowed to shelter these people. The AfD says the same law must apply to everyone.

Immigration offices would be given the same standing as police and prosecutors in deportation matters. The police would receive the staff, logistics and infrastructure needed for deportations. Bavaria's contacts with other countries and regions should be used to make returns easier. Bavaria should also press for ending the arrangement on church asylum between the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) and the churches.

The AfD supports reforming asylum law and the related international treaties so that German interests carry more weight. Aid should be provided mainly in the crisis regions rather than in Germany. Benefits should be granted in kind wherever possible.

The AfD wants to change asylum law. People in need should get help mainly in their home region. Asylum seekers should get goods rather than money. Cash should be no higher than the average in Europe.

Humanitarian aid should take place mostly in the affected countries or in safe neighboring states. War refugees from Europe would be admitted only if they cannot be cared for near the conflict region. Admission would then be limited to people from areas where fighting is currently taking place and to the duration of the fighting. Cash benefits should be aligned with the European average.