BSW on migration and integration

The BSW wants to limit immigration so that integration can succeed. Asylum applications should be filed and decided at the EU's external borders and in third countries. The party stands by the basic right to asylum for persecuted people.

The BSW wants less immigration. People should apply for asylum at the EU's borders. Or in other countries outside the EU. The decision should be made there too. Only people who get protection should receive benefits in Germany. The right to asylum should stay.

The program commits to the basic right to asylum but points out that only one to two percent of arrivals receive protection status under asylum law. The number of immigrants should stay within a range that, in the party's view, does not overburden society. Only people entitled to protection should be able to claim support and social benefits in Germany. At the same time, Saxony should become more attractive to foreign skilled workers where companies actually need them.

The BSW wants people required to leave Germany to actually leave, and migrants who commit crimes to be deported. Asylum seekers required to leave should receive at most the constitutionally required minimum, provided in kind. A payment card is to be introduced statewide.

Some people are required to leave Germany. The BSW wants them to really leave. Migrants who commit many crimes should be deported. People who must leave should get only the bare minimum. They should get goods, not cash. Asylum seekers should get a payment card.

The program points to more than 200,000 people registered as required to leave in 2023 and to more than 1,400 immigrant repeat offenders recorded by Saxony's police in early 2024. These repeat offenders are to be deported; only those who obey the law may stay. For asylum seekers required to leave, it provides at most the subsistence minimum demanded by the constitution, given as in-kind benefits, plus incentives to leave quickly. The payment card is meant to make transfers abroad and payments to smugglers harder. In the party's view radical Islamism has no place in Saxony, and it also opposes racist currents.

The BSW wants to achieve integration through language skills and work. It calls for more German courses, mandatory language tests for children from age three and better recognition of foreign qualifications. Asylum seekers should take on simple support tasks while their case is pending.

The BSW wants more German courses. All children from age 3 should take a German test. Children who know too little German must go to daycare. Foreign qualifications should be recognized more easily. Asylum seekers should do simple jobs.

Besides additional German courses, volunteer teaching is to be given more recognition. If the language test shows gaps, attending a Kita (daycare center) is to be mandatory for that child. Foreign qualifications are to be recognized when they are comparable to German standards so that work permits can be issued quickly. The program expects this to relieve the welfare system and criticizes that refugees are employed more often in other European countries. Skilled workers from abroad are to be recruited where needed, also with funding programs.