AfD on migration and integration

The AfD calls for consistently deporting rejected asylum seekers with no right to stay and foreigners who have committed crimes. It sees asylum as temporary protection that does not lead to permanent residence. Recognized refugees should therefore be prepared for their return from the start.

The AfD wants to deport more people. This applies to rejected asylum seekers and to foreigners who commit crimes. Asylum should only be protection for a limited time. Recognized refugees should also go back home later.

Tolerated stays for people required to leave should remain an exception and must not turn into a long stay paid for by taxpayers. For recognized refugees, the AfD demands active return management. It would prepare them for going home from the outset and carry out the return once the conditions are met. According to the platform, the principle of temporary protection has been undermined by those in government since 2015.

The AfD wants to restrict asylum immigration to what the law requires and to reduce what it sees as financial incentives. In Saarland, refugees would receive benefits in kind instead of cash, family reunification would be strictly limited, and the age of young asylum seekers would be medically checked. It also demands full transparency about costs.

The AfD wants less asylum immigration. Refugees should get goods instead of money. Fewer family members should be allowed to follow. Doctors should check the age of young asylum seekers. Everyone should be able to see the costs.

The platform calls for aid in the countries of origin, action against people smuggling, regular border checks and fast asylum procedures whose outcomes the authorities enforce. People who are required to leave should also be pressured through benefit cuts. The age tests would be carried out across the board to prevent fraud. The AfD puts the yearly cost of more than 28,000 asylum migrants in Saarland at no less than 100 million euros and criticizes a lack of statistics. For that reason, a digital file on residence and social benefits would be created for every asylum migrant.

The AfD wants to make it binding for immigrants to accept values it describes as democratic, based on the rule of law, and Christian-European. It sees integration as an obligation that immigrants owe to society. State-funded integration measures should only be offered to people with a lawful prospect of staying.

The AfD says immigrants must accept the values in Germany. They must work on their integration themselves. Only people who are allowed to stay should get help from the state. The AfD wants to preserve German identity.

The platform describes Germany as a community of culture and values and not just a state. The AfD wants to counter what it sees as growing multiculturalization, radical Islamization tendencies and the emergence of parallel societies. This is meant to preserve German identity for locals and for well-integrated immigrants.

The AfD wants to offer better working and living conditions to high-performing Germans and highly qualified foreigners instead of relying on asylum immigration. It names wage and tax incentives as well as lower contributions for families with children. In its view, unmanaged immigration solves neither the skills shortage nor demographic problems.

The AfD wants well-trained Germans to stay in the country. Well-trained foreigners should come too. There should be benefits on wages and taxes for this. Families with children should pay lower charges.

Among highly qualified foreigners, the AfD mainly has in mind people from regions it describes as culturally close. People of German descent living abroad would get special options to return. The platform points out that at some daycare centers in the state, three quarters of children have a first language other than German. In the AfD's view, unmanaged immigration makes existing problems worse and speeds up changes in the makeup of the population.