What do the parties in Bremen say on migration and integration?

The BIW wants foreign serious and repeat offenders deported at the latest after their prison term and barred from returning for life. All others who are required to leave, such as rejected asylum seekers, should also have to leave Bremen.

Foreigners who commit serious crimes should have to leave Germany. This should happen after prison at the latest. They should never be allowed back. Bremen should also deport rejected asylum seekers.

The BIW wants asylum seekers with pending cases and tolerated people who are required to leave to be housed in shared facilities as a rule, not in their own apartments. This is meant to reduce demand for low-cost housing.

Asylum seekers should live in shared housing. This applies while their case is still open. It also applies to people who must leave the country. They should not get their own apartment. The BIW wants to keep more cheap homes free for locals.

The CDU wants to take in refugees beyond the mandatory quota under the Königsteiner Schlüssel only if housing, daycare and school places and integration services are available. Accommodation is to be planned for the long term and be mostly publicly owned. The program calls taking people in without adequate provision inhumane and costly.

Bremen must take in a fixed number of refugees. The CDU wants to take in more only if there is enough room. There must be housing, daycare places and school places. The shelters should belong to the state. Gyms should be used as shelters only in an emergency.

The CDU wants to consistently deport refugees it regards as unwilling to integrate or who have committed crimes. For well-integrated people who make an effort, it wants to create the conditions for the "Chancen-Aufenthalt" (opportunity residence permit). In the Bundesrat it will push for longer prior-residence periods before permanent residence is granted.

The CDU wants to deport refugees who commit crimes. The same goes for people who refuse to integrate. People who integrate well should be able to stay. But the CDU wants this: People must live here longer before they may stay for good.

The CDU wants to make it easier to recognize foreign vocational qualifications and, through the Bundesrat, to recruit skilled workers in their home countries together with other states. Migrant self-organizations and neighborhood centers are to be strengthened in their integration work.

The CDU wants to bring in more skilled workers from abroad. Their job qualifications should be recognized more easily. There should be more language classes for them. Groups run by migrants should get money and rooms. Neighborhood centers should also get more help.

The CDU welcomes the high number of citizenship applications and wants to shorten processing times, which currently run up to two years. To that end, the migration office is to get more staff and space and work more digitally.

Many people in Bremen want to become German citizens. The CDU thinks that is good. But applications take up to two years. So the office should get more staff and more rooms. Many steps should also work online.

The FDP wants to manage labor immigration through a points system modeled on Canada's. It justifies this with demographic change and the labor shortage in the state of Bremen. Foreign vocational qualifications should be recognized more simply and quickly.

The FDP wants to bring in more skilled workers from abroad. There should be a points system like in Canada. People get points for things like education, language and work experience. Foreign qualifications should be recognized faster.

The FDP wants to let well-integrated people seeking protection make a "Spurwechsel" (change of track) into labor migration. Anyone who is working, in training or studying should not be expelled. All asylum seekers and people with tolerated status should be allowed to work after three months without approval from the Federal Employment Agency.

The FDP wants refugees to be allowed to work sooner. After three months, everyone should be able to take a job. An agency no longer has to approve it. People who work or are in training should be allowed to stay. The FDP calls this a change of track.

The FDP wants an integration policy that welcomes immigrants but also expects them to make their own effort. Language and integration courses should be available everywhere and free of charge from the start. In addition, neighborhoods should become more socially and culturally mixed.

The FDP wants immigrants to become part of society. Language courses should be free and start right away. People should also attend the courses. Different people should live mixed together in the neighborhoods.

The FDP commits to the constitutional right to asylum and to admitting war refugees without red tape. At the same time, it demands complete registration at the border, consistent deportations, and enough detention places for people awaiting deportation. Some unaccompanied minor refugees are to be redistributed to other states.

The FDP wants to keep the right to asylum. War refugees should be able to stay easily for a limited time. People who must leave should be deported. Bremen should have to care for fewer young refugees without parents.

The Greens want to make it easier for skilled workers from abroad to enter the labor market. To that end, qualifications are to be recognized more easily and companies supported in hiring. The platform points to the need for skilled workers for the shift to climate neutrality.

The Greens want to make it easier for skilled workers from abroad to work here. Their degrees and certificates should be accepted more easily. Companies should get help when they hire these workers. Bremen needs many skilled workers.

The Greens want immigrant and refugee children and teenagers to be taught in regular classes quickly. Preparatory courses are to be well equipped and come with educational support. Young refugees are to be able to attend school after turning 18 as well.

Refugee children should join regular classes quickly. Before that, there are preparatory courses. The Greens want to equip these courses well. Experts should help children who lived through terrible things. Young refugees should be able to go to school after 18 too.

The Greens want to work to ensure that trainees without secure residency status are not deported, so that companies can plan with confidence. They also want needs-based language support to continue after school, backed by public funding.

Some trainees have no secure right to stay in Germany. The Greens want them not to be deported. This should also give companies certainty. Trainees should also get help learning German. The state should support this help.

The Greens want to keep Bremen a "safe harbor" for refugees and reject deportation detention as well as deportations to war and crisis zones. Immigrants are to settle in faster through quicker recognition of qualifications, language courses and swift naturalization.

The Greens want to keep taking in refugees. They reject deportations to war zones. They also reject detention before deportation. Immigrants should find work and learn German faster. Becoming a citizen should take less time.

The Greens want to examine whether Bremen should get its own state office for migration that brings together all responsibilities related to immigration. A guideline would also direct the immigration authorities to use their discretion in favor of the people affected.

The Greens are thinking about a new office for migration. This office would handle everything that immigrants need. The authorities would also get a guideline. They should let people stay when the law allows it.

The Greens want to make the counseling program „Ankommen im Quartier“ (Arriving in the Neighborhood) for refugees permanent. Municipal language courses would continue and integration courses would be better organized, to make an independent life easier for immigrants.

The Greens want to keep a counseling program for refugees. It is called „Ankommen im Quartier“. The city's language courses should also continue. The integration courses should get better.

The Greens want more space and privacy in initial reception facilities and want especially vulnerable refugees to be housed and cared for appropriately more quickly. The platform bases this on lessons from the pandemic.

The Greens want more space in shelters for refugees. No more than two people should share a room. Pregnant women and single parents should get suitable housing faster. Other vulnerable people should also get help quickly.

For rejected asylum seekers, the Greens rely on voluntary departure and want to limit deportations in Bremen and nationwide. They reject detention pending deportation; undocumented people who have lived in Bremen for years would get a right to stay through a cutoff-date rule.

The Greens want as few deportations as possible. Rejected asylum seekers should leave voluntarily. Nobody should be deported to a war zone. The Greens reject detention before deportation. People without papers should be allowed to stay if they have lived in Bremen for a long time.

The Greens want to relaunch Bremen's admission program for family members from Syria and Afghanistan in an improved form. Existing restrictions would be reviewed.

Bremen has its own program for refugees. It lets family members from Syria and Afghanistan come and join their relatives. The Greens want to restart and improve this program. They want to review the hurdles that exist so far.

The Greens want to make Bremen's naturalization campaign permanent so that more people become citizens and waiting times fall. Anyone who has lived in Bremen long enough would be approached directly by the authorities.

The Greens want more people to get German citizenship. The waiting time should get shorter. The office should write to people on its own. This applies to everyone who has lived in Bremen long enough.

The Greens call for a European refugee policy based on solidarity that guarantees people seeking protection a fair, individual asylum procedure. They want border protection to follow the rule of law under the European Parliament's control, and they reject pushbacks at the external borders as unlawful.

The Greens want Europe to protect people who flee war and violence. Every person should get a fair asylum procedure. The law should apply at the EU's borders. The European Parliament should oversee border protection. Bremen should support a civilian rescue ship with donations.

The Greens call for safe routes for refugees with admission quotas and a fair distribution of arrivals. They reject closed camps, transit zones, external camps in third countries and cooperation with the Libyan coast guard. Bremen should also take on a donation sponsorship for a civilian rescue ship.

The Greens want safe routes for people who flee. They are against closed camps at the EU's borders. The EU should stop working with the coast guard of Libya. Bremen should collect money for a rescue ship.

The Greens want people who have to leave their homes because of the climate crisis to receive protection in other countries. International law should be developed further for this purpose, and Bremen should push the federal government to act. Industrialized countries should keep their financial pledges to poor and heavily affected countries.

Some people have to flee because of the climate crisis. The Greens want them to get protection in other countries. For this, the rules between countries should change. Rich countries should pay poor countries the money they promised.

The Left wants to bring conditions for all refugees closer to those applied to people from Ukraine. This includes easy access to housing, work, education, and health care, and generous use of legal leeway on residence status.

Refugees from Ukraine got help quickly. The Left wants this for all refugees. They should easily get housing, work, and schooling. They should also be able to see a doctor. The authorities should let as many as possible stay.

Districts such as Gröpelingen or Blumenthal, where many immigrants and refugees first settle, are to receive preferential support. At the same time, other districts are to take on a larger share of integration.

Many new people arrive in certain districts. They find their first home there. The Left wants to give these districts extra help. Other districts should also take in new people.

The Left wants to ease the recognition of qualifications obtained abroad and expand related counseling. According to the program, many people in Bremen cannot work in their trained profession because their qualification is not recognized.

Many people learned their job in another country. In Germany their qualification often does not count. The Left wants to make this easier. There should be more advice. Courses for missing skills should also continue.

The Left wants to remove barriers and disadvantages for people with a migration background in the labor market and promote their potential in a targeted way. Counseling centers for mobile EU workers and against workplace discrimination are to be permanently funded.

People with a migration background often have a harder time at work. The Left wants to change that. There should be more language mediators. These are people who help others understand. Advice centers against exploitation should get permanent funding.

The Left calls for permanent residence status for people persecuted because of their gender or sexual orientation. Refugee women who have experienced violence should also get an unrestricted right to stay and dedicated shelters.

Some people flee because they are queer. Queer means, for example, lesbian, gay or trans. The Left wants them to be allowed to stay for good. The same should apply to refugee women who suffered violence. They should get safe housing.

The Left wants to reduce disadvantages for people with a migration background in daycare, school, training and work. Victims of labor exploitation are to receive a humanitarian right to stay.

Immigrants often have worse chances at school and at work. The Left wants to change that. Job applications should more often be checked without names. People who were exploited at work should be allowed to stay in Germany.

The Left wants legal escape routes and a Bremen state admission program for people at risk in Afghanistan. Refugees from Ukraine without a Ukrainian passport should be treated the same as those with one.

The Left wants safe and legal ways for people to flee. Bremen should take in people from Afghanistan who are in danger. This includes relatives of people living in Bremen. People fleeing Ukraine should have the same rights, whatever passport they hold.

The Left rejects classifying countries as safe countries of origin and points to Roma, who rarely receive protection. It wants political asylum for whistleblowers and a humanitarian right to stay for victims of violence and exploitation.

Germany treats some countries as safe. People from those countries almost never get protection. The Left is against this rule. People who expose wrongdoing should get asylum. Victims of violence and exploitation should be allowed to stay.

The Left wants refugees housed in small, decentralized units instead of large shared shelters, and moved into their own apartments early. Bremen itself should build and convert properties for this, for example through a public agency.

The Left does not want big shelters for refugees. They should live in small housing units all across the city. They should get their own apartment as soon as possible. Bremen should build and convert buildings itself for this.

The Left rejects the central initial reception center on Lindenstraße in its current form because it considers it too large. It wants to keep shrinking the facility and spread it across several sites.

Bremen has one large first shelter for asylum seekers. The Left thinks it is too big. It wants to make it smaller and spread it over several places. People who are especially at risk should be housed safely from the start.

The Left wants refugee shelters designed like apartments, with privacy, private bathrooms and kitchens. The inviolability of the home should apply there too, and every shared shelter should have a violence-protection plan.

Shelters for refugees should be like apartments. There should be a private bathroom and a kitchen. No one may simply enter the rooms, not even the police. Every shelter needs a plan to protect people from violence. There should be more staff and interpreters.

The Left wants more money and staff for counseling, guide programs, German learning sites and translation help for refugees. Government tasks should not be permanently shifted onto volunteers.

Refugees need advice and help when they arrive. The Left wants more money and more staff for this. The state should not leave this work to volunteers. Young refugees should be able to finish school even as adults.

The Left wants people without German or other EU citizenship to be able to vote for the district councils as well. The condition would be five years of residence in Germany and currently living in Bremen.

Some people in Bremen have no German or EU passport. Today they cannot vote for the district councils. The Left wants to change that. People who have lived in Germany for five years and live in Bremen should be able to vote.

The SPD calls for consistently granting tolerated-stay permits for training and for giving young people a permanent residence title once they pass their interim exam. This is meant to give them security. Residence status should not stand in the way of training.

Some young people from abroad may only stay for their training. The SPD wants to give them more security. If they pass the mid-term exam, they should be allowed to stay for good. Their residence status should not stop them from training.

The SPD encourages people who meet the requirements to become citizens. At the federal level it wants to back the planned simplification of naturalization for long-term residents, and in Bremen it wants applications processed promptly.

Many people have lived in Bremen for a long time but have no German passport. The SPD wants it to be easier for them to become German. Bremen should keep promoting this. The offices should handle applications quickly.

The SPD wants differences in residence status to restrict access to language courses, training, work and choice of housing less than they do now. The opportunities given to refugees from Ukraine should also be open to other refugees.

Refugees from Ukraine may work and take courses quickly. Other refugees often face stricter rules. The SPD wants all refugees to get these opportunities. Nobody should live for many years with only a temporary permission to stay.

The SPD commits to granting protection and asylum to people who are fleeing. Refugees should quickly get access to school, daycare, language courses and work, and be able to move from shared shelters into their own homes.

The SPD wants to protect people who are fleeing. Children should go to daycare and school quickly. Adults should learn German and find work. Refugees should be able to move from shared shelters into their own homes.

Everyone with an immigration background in Bremen and Bremerhaven should have the chance to learn German in a course. The SPD therefore wants to continue the municipal language courses alongside those offered by the federal government.

All immigrants should be able to learn German. The federal government offers German courses. Bremen offers its own courses too. The SPD wants to keep these courses. There should also be special courses for women.

The SPD wants to keep advising, connecting and strengthening migrant organizations. It also backs the recognition of Islamic religious communities as corporations under public law.

Bremen has many associations run by immigrants. The SPD wants to keep advising and supporting them. Islamic communities want a special legal recognition. The churches already have it. The SPD supports this wish.

Citing the need for skilled workers, the SPD wants to make greater use of immigration into the labor market. Foreign professional qualifications are to be recognized more simply and quickly, and the migration office is to get more staff.

Bremen lacks skilled workers. So the SPD wants more people to immigrate for work. Job qualifications from abroad should be recognized faster. The offices in charge should get more staff.