What do the parties in Baden-Württemberg say on migration and integration?

The AfD wants to hold a statewide referendum on migration policy within 100 days. Voters would decide on turning people back at the borders, detaining everyone who is required to leave but does not, and benefits in kind only for asylum seekers. A yes vote is meant to back the state government in the expected dispute with the federal government.

The AfD wants people to vote on migration. The vote is about three things. People without a right to stay should be turned back at the border. People who must leave but stay should be locked up. Asylum seekers should get goods, not money.

The AfD wants to pull Baden-Württemberg out of the nationwide distribution of refugees and impose a general intake stop. It would last until the borders are again protected against illegal crossings and is meant to put more pressure on the federal government.

Germany spreads refugees across all states. The AfD no longer wants to take part. Baden-Württemberg should take in nobody new. This should last until the borders are protected. The AfD wants to pressure the federal government this way.

The AfD wants the state interior ministry to treat returns as a priority. People without a right to stay are to leave the country quickly. Asylum seekers are to receive benefits in kind instead of cash.

The AfD wants more people without a right to stay to leave. The interior ministry should deal with this first. Asylum seekers should no longer get money. They should get goods instead, such as food and clothes.

The AfD wants to grant Bürgergeld (citizen's income) to people without German citizenship only after at least ten years of regular work in Germany, and then limit it to one year. Refugees from Ukraine would get the same benefits as asylum seekers. The platform calls Bürgergeld an incentive for illegal immigration.

The AfD wants to limit Bürgergeld for foreigners. Bürgergeld is the basic welfare payment. Foreigners must first work ten years in Germany. Then they get it for one year only. Refugees from Ukraine would get less, like asylum seekers.

The AfD wants to deport more people who have no right to stay. To do so, the deportation authority and the responsible police units would get more staff, and the task would be spread across the four Regierungspräsidien (regional administrative authorities). The platform points to many failed deportation attempts.

The AfD wants to deport more people. It means people with no right to stay. The authority and the police would get more staff. Four regional state offices would handle deportations.

The AfD wants to give asylum seekers in-kind benefits only wherever possible and end what it calls misuse of the payment card. Asylum seekers in ongoing proceedings and rejected applicants would no longer get work permits. In the platform's view, the support offered in Germany attracts people.

The AfD wants to stop giving asylum seekers money. They would get things like food and clothes directly. Asylum seekers would not be allowed to work. This also applies to rejected applicants. The state should count health costs exactly.

The AfD wants to stop housing asylum seekers in county and municipal shelters. Instead, there would be central arrival and departure centers and interim shelters near the four Regierungspräsidien (regional administrative authorities). According to the platform, this would make deportations and in-kind benefits easier.

The AfD does not want asylum seekers spread across towns and villages. They would live in large centers. These centers would be near the four regional state offices. Only recognized asylum seekers would move to towns.

The AfD does not want refugees to be housed in social housing. It blames immigration for rising rents and the housing shortage and calls for returning foreigners who are required to leave.

The AfD says immigration makes homes scarce and costly. Refugees should not get social housing. Foreigners with no right to stay should leave the country.

The CDU wants to strengthen the state agency for skilled-worker immigration and pool responsibilities. Foreign qualifications are to be recognized faster where they are equivalent. According to the program, the economy benefits from skilled workers from around the world.

Companies need skilled people from other countries. The CDU wants these people to be able to come faster. Offices should check their qualifications faster. But the qualifications must be good enough.

The CDU wants to achieve integration mainly through German language skills and employment, and to shift language support into companies and clubs. According to the program, anyone who makes an effort and commits to the Leitkultur (guiding culture) should have every chance to advance.

The CDU wants immigrants to learn German and to work. Language courses should take place in companies and clubs. Immigrants should find it easier to start a business. They should accept the values and language of the country.

The CDU wants to regulate, manage and limit immigration together with the federal government. It backs turning people back at the borders and stronger checks against smugglers.

The CDU wants fewer people to enter the country without rules. It supports turning people back at the border. More checks should stop smugglers. Cross-border commuters should not suffer from this.

The CDU wants to assign asylum seekers without jobs to community service and pay benefits cashless through the Bezahlkarte (payment card). Organizations that help people get around the card could lose their tax-exempt nonprofit status.

The CDU wants asylum seekers without a job to do community work. They should get their money on a payment card, not in cash. Nobody should get around the card. Groups that help with that should lose tax advantages.

The CDU wants asylum procedures to be completed in the state's initial reception centers and only people with prospects of staying to be distributed to the counties. It rejects new state admission programs.

The CDU wants asylum cases to be finished in the state's first shelters. Only people who may stay should move on to the counties. The others should go straight back to their home country. The state should not start new admission programs.

The CDU wants to grant a Duldung (temporary suspension of deportation) only where the law strictly requires it, and to create more places in pre-deportation detention. The special unit "Gefährliche Ausländer" (dangerous foreigners) is to grow in staff and organization.

The CDU wants to deport more people who must leave. A Duldung should only be given when the law demands it. A Duldung means deportation is put on hold for now. There should be more places in deportation detention.

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.

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 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 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.

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 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.

The SPD commits to the individual right to asylum and to fair proceedings under the rule of law. Municipalities are to keep organizing accommodation but receive permanent funding from the state for it. Integration management is to be anchored in law.

The SPD wants to keep the right to asylum. Every refugee should get a fair procedure. Towns and cities house refugees. The state should give them steady money for this.

The SPD wants to build additional, better-equipped state initial reception centers and reorganize the immigration authorities. A state immigration office is to be created for this purpose. People without a right to stay could remain in the reception centers until departure instead of being distributed to municipalities.

The SPD wants to build more reception centers for refugees. They should offer small living groups, counseling and language courses. A new state office should handle immigration. Refugees should find it easier to work and train for a job.

The SPD wants to consistently enforce the obligation to leave the country, especially for people who have committed serious crimes. At the same time, the state should again follow most recommendations of the Härtefallkommission (hardship commission). Well-integrated people would thereby gain a prospect of a residence permit.

Some people must leave Germany. The SPD wants to enforce this, especially after serious crimes. But well-integrated people should be allowed to stay. A hardship commission looks at such cases. The state should mostly follow its advice again.

The SPD wants to make it easier for foreign skilled workers to move to the state and to recognize foreign qualifications faster. Integration management, promotion of naturalization and the involvement of clubs are to be expanded. The platform calls Baden-Württemberg a country of immigration and integration important for the economy.

The SPD wants more skilled workers from abroad. Foreign degrees should be recognized faster. The state should promote becoming a citizen. Clubs should get money when they help newcomers settle in.