AfD on migration and integration

The AfD wants to deport foreign offenders after they serve their sentence, regardless of residence status, and to impose permanent entry bans on extremists, people deemed security threats and violent offenders. People required to leave who do not go voluntarily would be detained until deportation.

Foreigners who commit crimes should have to leave after prison. This should apply whatever their residence status is. Dangerous foreigners should never be allowed back. People who must leave but stay should be locked up. The AfD wants to build more detention places for this.

Deportation would follow the completed sentence irrespective of residence status. Anyone required to leave who resists or evades deportation would be held in prisons with deportation detention places or in similar facilities. Prisons and deportation facilities would be expanded and newly built for this purpose. The platform also demands that sentences not be lighter because of origin, culture, religion or ideology.

The AfD wants to stop unauthorized entries and entries from safe third countries through border controls and to deport everyone required to leave immediately. It rejects the UN migration compact and the UN refugee compact because it sees national interests being put second.

The AfD wants to control the borders. Nobody should enter without permission. People who must leave the country should go at once. The AfD rejects two United Nations agreements on migration and refugees. It says Germany should decide for itself who comes.

The platform demands consistent application of the safe third country rule in the asylum article of the Basic Law and of the Dublin III rules. It says the Basic Law and the Geneva Refugee Convention were meant for persecuted individuals and do not justify permanent large-scale immigration. The AfD sees social benefits as an incentive for asylum migration. For the party, deciding on the kind and scale of immigration is part of state sovereignty.

The AfD wants to recruit skilled workers from outside Europe only as a last resort. Needed workers should come primarily from neighboring European countries, and unemployed residents should be brought into the labor market more.

The AfD wants to bring in workers from far away only if nothing else works. Workers from nearby European countries should come first. Jobless people in the country should find work. Well-trained people should not move away from Germany.

The party wants to tackle the coexistence of skills shortages and unemployment with better schooling and training. Hesse should prevent qualified workers from leaving through attractive living and working conditions. The platform describes neighboring European countries as culturally close.

The AfD wants to replace cash benefits for asylum seekers with in-kind benefits as far as legally possible and to set up reception centers outside the EU. Asylum seekers should contribute to the costs of proceedings, housing and care. The age of unaccompanied minors should be subject to mandatory medical checks.

Asylum seekers should mostly get goods instead of money. Centers for asylum seekers should be set up outside the EU. Asylum seekers should pay part of the costs themselves. Doctors should check the age of young people who arrive without parents. Those who lie about their age should have to leave.

The party argues that the level of social benefits attracts poverty-driven migration and that free movement and asylum law are abused for this. All available medical methods should be used to determine age; anyone giving false information should be deported promptly. The platform puts costs in Hesse at about 8,500 euros per month per unaccompanied minor (as of 2019). The burden on taxpayers should be as low as possible.

The AfD wants to equip all authorities involved in asylum proceedings with identity verification technology and register the data centrally and digitally in Hesse. Anyone who gives false information or refuses to cooperate should be deported promptly.

Authorities should check carefully who an asylum seeker is. They should get technical devices for this. The data should be stored in one central place. People who give false information should be deported. This also applies to asylum seekers who commit serious crimes.

Authorities should be able to check across states whether someone is already registered elsewhere under different data; the legal and technical basis for this is to be created. Registration would be done together with the Federal Ministry of the Interior. Asylum seekers sentenced to at least one year in prison or who travel to their home country should lose their protection status and be deported. Detention places pending deportation should be available for offenders required to leave.

The AfD wants to deport without delay everyone who is legally required to leave and to stop church asylum. Sections 25a and 25b of the Residence Act, which allow well-integrated people with tolerated status to obtain a right to stay, would be removed. Countries that refuse to take back rejected asylum seekers would lose financial aid.

The AfD wants faster deportations. Churches should no longer be able to shield people from deportation. Two rules now give some people without residence rights a right to stay. The AfD wants to scrap these rules. Countries that do not take back their citizens should get no more money.

Illness should prevent a deportation only if a public health officer certifies it. Deportation dates should not be shared with non-governmental organizations. In the party's view, people who broke the law should not obtain permanent residence after years. Countries that accept rejected stateless asylum seekers would receive financial support for doing so.

The AfD rejects all family reunification for refugees and asylum seekers and wants families reunited in the country of origin instead. Municipalities should decide for themselves how many asylum seekers they can take in, and the federal government should cover all costs.

Refugees should not be allowed to bring their families to Germany. Families should come together again in the home country. Towns and cities should say for themselves how many people they take in. The federal government should pay all costs.

The party justifies this with overstretched welfare systems and municipalities. Only asylum seekers with a legally secure prospect of staying should be assigned to municipalities. While their claims are examined, asylum seekers should preferably live in central reception facilities. Sites for housing should be chosen so that local social peace is maintained.

The AfD wants an organized return of all foreigners required to leave and, instead of integration measures, wants refugees to be taught skills for returning to their home countries. Naturalization should come only at the end of successful integration; those unwilling to integrate should face sanctions up to deportation.

The AfD wants refugees to go back to their home countries. They should learn useful skills for that. People who must leave the country should be taken back in an organized way. Only well-integrated people should get a German passport. People who do not want to integrate should be punished.

The party requires immigrants to learn spoken and written German within a reasonable time, to embrace the legal order and culture, and to support themselves. It says a high share of integration measures fail. The return is to be organized jointly by the federal government, states and municipalities. Sanctions would apply to migrants who, in the AfD's view, deliberately want to live in a parallel society.

The AfD wants to abolish acquiring German citizenship by birth in the country and return to the descent principle that applied before 2000. It rejects dual citizenship; anyone who becomes German should give up their previous nationality.

Today, children of foreigners can become German by being born in Germany. The AfD wants to end this. Only people with German parents or people who are naturalized should be German. Nobody should have two passports. For serious crimes, the state should check whether to take citizenship away.

The party demands a clear commitment to Germany upon naturalization. For serious crime, revoking citizenship should be examined within the constitution and the law, provided no one becomes stateless. The platform points out that the descent principle applies in many European countries. Immigrants should accept the primacy of German culture.

The AfD wants regular statistics published on how migrants from individual countries of origin fare in employment, welfare benefits, education and crime. Following Denmark's example, data should also show which groups contribute more in taxes or draw more in benefits.

The AfD wants to collect more figures about migrants. The figures should be split by country of origin. They cover work, welfare benefits, education and crime. The figures should be published regularly. Denmark is the model for this.

The party assumes that ability and willingness to integrate differ by origin and cultural background. According to the platform, Denmark's finance ministry regularly determines how much immigrant groups use public services and contribute to financing them. It says such analyses led to a change of course in asylum policy there, which the AfD also seeks for Germany.

The AfD wants to offer immigrant and refugee women targeted German courses. Once their asylum status is recognized, they should get easy access to the labor market and to training according to their qualifications. The platform also sees integration as the women's own responsibility.

Immigrant women should be able to learn German. The AfD wants to offer them courses for this. With recognized asylum they should be allowed to work easily. There should be child care during the courses. The women should also make their own effort to integrate.

The platform stresses that integration is not only the state's job but must also come from the immigrants themselves. Training and further education should be easily accessible once language skills are in place. Suitable child care is to be available during German courses and other integration measures. Vocational training is likewise to be supported by adapted child care offerings.