Grüne on migration and integration

The Greens want heritage-language classes, currently organized by consulates, to be offered under state responsibility in the future. This is part of their goal of better integrating children with a migration or refugee background in schools.

Some children also learn their family's language at school. Right now, consulates of other countries organize this. The Greens want the state to be in charge in the future. Children from immigrant families should feel more included.

Heritage-language teaching is currently run by the consulates of the countries of origin. The Greens want to turn it into an offering for which the state is responsible. The plan is tied to strengthening the integration of children with migration and refugee experience in schools.

The Greens see language and work as the keys to integration. They want language courses at all levels to be available from the start and to promote immigrants' participation in the labor market more specifically, especially for women.

Immigrants should be able to learn German quickly. There should be more language courses. They should also be allowed to work soon. Women should get special support.

The state program "VwV Deutsch" is to keep reaching people who have no access to courses run by the federal migration office (BAMF). Pilot projects for language learning on the job are to get considerably more money, civil society offerings are to be supported, and the platform expects more help from the federal government. In state reception centers, democracy education, extremism prevention and trauma rehabilitation are to be anchored and strengthened. A duty to cooperate is to govern how integration managers work with the immigration office, job center and welfare office.

The Greens want to manage labor migration and lower barriers for foreign skilled workers in order to ease labor shortages. Immigration offices are to become more efficient and foreign qualifications recognized faster.

Skilled workers from abroad should be able to come more easily. This should help with the shortage of workers. Immigration offices should work faster. Foreign degrees should be accepted sooner.

The state agency for skilled worker immigration is to continue its work. Pre-arrival integration, such as learning German in the home country, is supported, and the state is to match companies and foreign workers more precisely. Immigration offices in larger towns and counties are to be reorganized, including with AI-supported model procedures. Public offices are to build intercultural skills and offer key information in several languages, for example through apps.

The Greens commit to the constitutional right to asylum and to international refugee conventions. Trainees and employees who have not committed serious crimes should not be deported; legal leeway is to be used uniformly across the state in favor of a right to stay.

The Greens want to protect the right to asylum. People who work or train here should be allowed to stay. This does not apply after serious crimes. The payment card should work simply.

The platform wants to end deaths in the Mediterranean and rejects criminalizing humanitarian aid. Reception centers are to offer psychological counseling. The Bezahlkarte (payment card for asylum seekers) is to be implemented without extra work for authorities or needless hurdles for refugees, with leeway for municipalities. Counseling centers are to inform those affected and employers about options for staying. Recommendations of the hardship commission are to keep being followed unless there are proven risks to public security.

According to the platform, people with neither a right of residence nor a prospect of staying, and with no obstacles to deportation, must leave. Voluntary return is to take priority; deportations are to concentrate on serious offenders and people considered security threats.

People who may not stay must leave. It is best if they leave by choice. Deportations should mainly affect serious offenders. Authorities should find out faster who someone is.

The platform considers identity verification important for reliable registers and public security; missing documents are named as the most common reason returns fail. Procedures for verifying identity and obtaining documents are to be sped up and eased. The round table on deportation detention with churches, welfare groups, volunteers and authorities is to continue, and independent legal advice should be possible in detention.

The Greens want to launch a new admission program for Yazidis and enable the family reunification still outstanding. Survivors of the genocide are not to be deported, and aid in northern Iraq is to grow.

Yazidis are a religious group. They suffered a genocide in Iraq. The Greens want a new aid program for them. Families should be allowed to follow. Survivors should not be deported.

In northern Iraq, the state works with the Dohuk region to improve the situation of displaced Yazidis. Psychosocial support, especially for women, is to be expanded and local actors strengthened. The Greens want to achieve protection from deportation for genocide survivors at the federal level.