Consolidate integration policy and overhaul the immigration office
The SPD wants to consolidate state responsibilities for migration and integration and draw up a statewide integration plan together with migrant organizations. An emergency program would give the immigration office more staff and space. Language courses, education and the labor market are to become easier to access regardless of residence status.
The SPD wants to organize integration in Saarland better. There would be one plan for the whole state. The immigration office would get more staff. A welcome center would be set up. All newcomers should find it easier to learn German and to work.
The platform describes current integration policy as a patchwork and criticizes that the state integration commissioner's post is held by the minister. Permanent funding is to replace a series of new projects, and integration advisory councils are to be strengthened. The immigration office is to become easier to reach, more digital and more decentralized, because the SPD says the backlog has existential consequences for those affected. Recognition of qualifications is to be simplified. For refugees, the plan provides for counseling independent of the authorities and psychosocial care.
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„Wir werden ein Willkommenszentrum etablieren und Sprachförderung, den Zugang zu Bildungseinrichtungen und zum regulären Arbeitsmarkt besser zugänglich machen, unabhängig vom jeweiligen Status.“Translation: We will establish a welcome center and make language support, access to educational institutions and to the regular labor market more accessible, regardless of a person's status.
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- Migrationleaning open
Access to language courses, education and work is to be eased regardless of status and services for immigrants expanded, which moves toward the open pole.