BSW on migration and integration

The BSW commits to the constitutional right to asylum but wants to limit immigration that it calls uncontrolled. Asylum applications are to be filed and decided at the EU's external borders and in third countries.

The BSW wants to keep the right to asylum. But it wants less immigration. People should apply for asylum at the EU's outer borders. Or in countries outside the EU. The decision should be made there too.

According to the platform, only one to two percent of arrivals receive refugee status under asylum law. It says the number of immigrants has overstretched society almost continuously since 2015, which makes integration harder. Existing European rules are to be applied consistently. Municipalities are not to be left alone with integration. The party says it will oppose racist and xenophobic tendencies.

The BSW wants foreign offenders, Islamist threats and people who are required to leave to exit the country. Deportations are to be enforced consistently and combined with re-entry bans.

The BSW wants more deportations. Violent offenders and Islamist threats should leave the country. People who must leave should really go. Deported people should not be allowed back in.

The platform states that in 2022 more than a third of identified suspects in Brandenburg were foreigners. In principle, only those who do not commit crimes can stay. In 2023, over 200,000 people were registered as required to leave, almost 50,000 of them without a Duldung (temporary suspension of deportation). The party demands that the state systematically see to their departure. It says radical Islamism has no place in Germany or Brandenburg.

The BSW wants to introduce a payment card for asylum seekers across the state. People required to leave are to receive only the minimum subsistence level required by the constitution, and as benefits in kind.

Asylum seekers should get a payment card instead of cash. This should stop them from sending money abroad. People who must leave should get fewer benefits. They should get only the bare minimum. They should get it as goods, not as money.

In the party's view, the payment card is meant to make transfers abroad and payments to smugglers harder. It is to apply throughout the state. The platform criticizes that rejected asylum seekers receive benefits that are generous by European comparison. For people required to leave, benefits are to drop to the minimum the constitution demands.

The BSW wants more German courses and mandatory German tests for all children from age three, with compulsory daycare where deficits are found. Foreign qualifications are to be recognized faster, and asylum seekers should take on simple support work while their case is pending.

The BSW wants more German courses. All children from age three should take a German test. Children with weak German must go to daycare. Degrees from abroad should be accepted faster. Asylum seekers should do simple jobs.

The platform treats language skills as the basis of integration; volunteer teaching is also to be given more recognition. Qualifications from abroad are to be recognized quickly where they are truly comparable to German standards, with work permits issued soon after. This is meant to relieve the welfare systems. The party criticizes that a larger share of refugees works in many European countries. Skilled workers from abroad are to be recruited only where there is a real shortage and without harming poorer countries of origin.