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

Through the Bundesrat, the AfD wants foreign offenders to be expelled automatically whenever they are sentenced to prison, even if the sentence is suspended. It cites high reoffending rates as the reason.

Foreigners sentenced to prison should have to leave the country. This should apply even with a suspended sentence. Today this rule starts at three years in prison. The AfD wants to change the law through the Bundesrat.

The AfD wants Hamburg to deport all foreigners who are legally required to leave. Measures include multiplying detention places, monitoring those due for deportation with ankle tags, and ending integration offers for people staying only temporarily.

Some foreigners must leave Germany. The AfD wants Hamburg to deport all of them. There should be many more places in deportation detention. Some people should wear an electronic ankle tag. Then they cannot go into hiding.

The AfD sees asylum as temporary protection that ends with return. It will not fund integration efforts for asylum seekers and rejects the "Spurwechsel" (switching from asylum to a work-based residence status).

For the AfD, asylum is only protection for a while. When the danger is over, people should go back. So the AfD does not want to pay for their integration. Asylum seekers should not be able to become work migrants.

Through the Bundesrat, the AfD wants a much more restrictive immigration system. Asylum migration would follow an Australian-style model, and skilled immigration a points system.

The AfD wants much stricter rules for immigration. For refugees, Germany should act like Australia. Skilled workers should be chosen with a points system. Borders should be strictly protected.

The AfD wants benefits for protection seekers provided exclusively in kind. It considers the payment card a first but insufficient step against what it sees as economically motivated asylum abuse.

Refugees should not get money anymore. They should only get things, like food and a bed. The payment card is not enough for the AfD. It wants to stop people from coming only for money.

The AfD wants asylum seekers housed centrally following Denmark's example. In its view, this allows better control and creates incentives for voluntary departure.

Asylum seekers should live in one central place. The model is Denmark. The AfD says this gives more control. More people would then leave on their own. Some shelters in Hamburg should close.

The AfD wants a substantial change to the Königsteiner Schlüssel, the formula that distributes asylum seekers among the German states, so that it reflects Hamburg's particular situation. In the program's view, this is meant to preserve the city's German and Central European cultural character.

Asylum seekers are shared out among the German states. A formula decides how many each state gets. The AfD wants to change this formula. Hamburg should get a better deal. The AfD says this protects the city's culture.

The AfD wants to stop private sea rescue ships, which it calls smuggler ships, from entering or leaving the Port of Hamburg. Hamburg authorities are to be empowered to seize them. In the program's view, these ships drive illegal migration and put people's lives at risk.

Private ships rescue people in the Mediterranean. The AfD calls them smuggler ships. These ships should not use Hamburg's port. Officials should be allowed to seize them. The groups behind them should lose their benefits.

The CDU wants to manage and limit immigration and considers Hamburg's capacity for housing, schools and integration to be exceeded. Shelters are to be spread across the city in a socially balanced way and planned with public participation.

The CDU wants less immigration to Hamburg. It says the city has too little room in shelters and schools. Shelters should be spread evenly across the city. Local people should have a say.

The CDU wants to sharply reduce financial incentives for coming to Germany. In Hamburg it relies on a payment card and a work requirement for asylum seekers, and at the federal level on stricter rules for naturalization and dual citizenship. In its view, strong incentives draw especially many asylum seekers to Germany.

The CDU wants fewer asylum seekers to come to Germany. Refugees should get a payment card instead of cash. Asylum seekers in Hamburg should have to work. People who must leave the country should get no more money from the state.

The CDU wants more and faster deportations, including to Syria and Afghanistan for criminals and people classified as potential attackers. Anyone with protection status who travels to their country of origin for a vacation should lose that status automatically and be barred from re-entering.

The CDU wants to deport more people who are not allowed to stay. This should happen faster. Criminals should also be sent back to Syria and Afghanistan. Refugees who vacation in their home country should lose their protection.

The CDU advocates stationary checks at Germany's borders until, in its view, the EU's external borders are adequately protected. Anyone arriving from an EU country or a safe third country is to be turned back at the border.

The CDU wants fixed checks at Germany's borders. They should stay until the EU's outer borders are secure. People coming from another EU country should not get asylum in Germany. Police should turn these people back at the border.

The CDU wants to press the federal government to make it easier for skilled workers to come to Germany; credential recognition and visa procedures should be completed within one working week. At the same time, this immigration should stay separate from the asylum system, and counseling for people returning home should grow substantially.

Hamburg does not have enough workers. The CDU wants skilled workers from abroad to come more easily. Visas and recognition of job training should be done in one week. This should stay separate from asylum. People who want to go back to their home country should get more advice.

The CDU wants to reissue Hamburg's integration plan with measurable goals and clear responsibility for government, business and civil society. It sees integration as a task that demands effort from both immigrants and the host society.

The CDU wants to make a new plan for integration. Integration means that immigrants become part of society. The plan should have goals that can be measured. Government, companies and associations should share responsibility.

The CDU sees German language skills and integration into work as the most important conditions for successful integration. The state is to support both but also make them mandatory.

Immigrants should learn German and work. The CDU wants to help with that. But it also wants to make it a duty. Young people without a work permit should get community service tasks.

The CDU wants to push at the federal level to undo the recent reform of citizenship law and rejects fast-track naturalization. It sees naturalization as a possible final step of successful integration.

The federal government changed the rules for getting a German passport. The CDU thinks this was wrong and wants to undo the change. It rejects very fast naturalization. Ceremonies for new citizens at city hall should continue.

The Greens want to create more suitable accommodation places for refugee minors who arrive without family. This is meant to secure care, integration and education.

Some children and teenagers flee to Hamburg without parents. The Greens want to create more good places for them. There they should be cared for and able to learn. Every young person should get a chance.

The Greens want to give skilled workers from abroad fast and fair access to Hamburg's labor market. Foreign qualifications are to be recognized more easily, language and integration courses expanded, and companies supported in bringing newcomers on board.

Hamburg needs skilled workers from other countries. The Greens want to make their start easier. Foreign degrees should be accepted faster. There should be more language courses. Companies get help when they hire newcomers.

The Greens want to strengthen the training of imams in Germany and expand Hamburg's qualification programs. This is meant to make Muslim congregations less dependent on their countries of origin. Religious communities are also to get help finding premises.

Imams lead prayers in the mosque. The Greens want to train more imams in Germany. They can be men or women. Then congregations need less help from other countries. Religions should also find rooms for prayer more easily.

The Greens want to spread refugees more evenly across the city to maintain public acceptance of new shelters. Shelters are to be humane and meet higher standards. Priority is to go to the “Housing First” approach, under which people are first placed in a home of their own.

Many refugees in Hamburg live in shelters. The Greens want to spread them fairly across the city. Shelters should be good and safe. Refugees should get their own apartment as fast as possible.

The Greens want more opportunities for children and adults to learn German, which they see as the key to settling in. Integration courses are to be offered more often with childcare, and course instructors are to be paid better. More interpreters are also to be made available.

People who come to Hamburg should be able to learn German well. The Greens want more language courses. There should be childcare during the courses. Children should learn German in daycare already. Course teachers should get better pay.

The Greens want to set up a central office that recruits and coordinates volunteers so that every refugee gets a mentor or a trained integration guide. Public administration is to become more accessible through plain language, multilingual forms and digital procedures. The aim is faster access to authorities, work and language courses.

Refugees should get help from the start. Each person should have a mentor or guide. A new office finds and coordinates the volunteers. Forms from public offices should be easier to understand. They should come in several languages.

The Greens want to encourage immigration of skilled and other workers at various qualification levels and streamline procedures in government offices. According to the platform, slow processes block access to work and participation for too long. Volunteer and professional integration guides are to support new arrivals from the start.

The Greens want more workers from abroad to come to Hamburg. Government offices should work faster and more simply. Then people can find a job sooner. Helpers should guide new arrivals in the city.

The Greens want Hamburg to appoint a commissioner for migration, integration, and participation. This person is to advise government agencies on coordination and serve as a public point of contact. In addition, cross-agency coordination of refugee-related tasks is to be firmly established again.

The Greens want one fixed person for the topic of integration. This person advises the government offices. People affected can turn to this person. The offices should also work together better.

The Greens want to actively promote the new naturalization options created by the citizenship law reform and digitize the procedure. Hamburg authorities are to use their discretion in favor of applicants.

The Greens want more people to get a German passport. The city should advertise this. People should be able to apply online. In unclear cases, offices should decide in favor of the people.

The Greens want independent observation of deportations to cover the entire process, including outside Hamburg. So far, monitoring exists at Hamburg Airport but not when people are picked up from the detention facility in Glückstadt.

In Hamburg, an independent office watches deportations at the airport. The Greens want to extend this. It should start when people are picked up from detention. That detention center is in Schleswig-Holstein.

The Greens want to expand health care for people without papers and continue supporting the clearing office. Victims of violence without a residence permit are to have an anonymous contact point that offers shelter.

Some people in Hamburg live without valid papers. The Greens want to help them better when they are sick. Victims of violence should get help and shelter without giving their name. They do not have to report to the authorities right away.

The Greens want to create Hamburg's own admission program for people from Afghanistan. It is meant to speed up what they see as slow admissions under the federal program, since the situation under the Taliban remains dangerous.

The Greens want Hamburg to have its own program for people from Afghanistan. People in danger should be able to enter more easily. The Greens think the federal program is too slow. Afghanistan is still dangerous.

The Greens advocate a European migration policy that guarantees access to asylum and fair, individual procedures. They condemn pushbacks at the external borders and want Hamburg to sponsor a civilian rescue ship through donations.

The Greens want Europe to protect the right to asylum. Every person who flees should get a fair process. No one should be pushed back at the border against the law. Hamburg should support a rescue ship with donations.

The Left wants to house refugees in decentralized apartments rather than large collective shelters and to set minimum standards. It rejects the payment card, residence restrictions and the special rules of the Asylum Seekers' Benefits Act.

Refugees should not live in large shelters. The Left wants smaller homes spread across the city. Every person should have at least 9 square meters of space. The payment card for refugees should go. Refugees should be allowed to choose where they live.

The Left wants unaccompanied refugee minors to start school quickly, be housed appropriately and be supported by youth welfare services. The age assessment procedure is to be dropped.

Some children and teens flee without parents. The Left wants to protect them better. They should go to school quickly and have good housing. Youth welfare services should help them. The authorities should no longer check their age.

The Left wants to scrap work bans for migrants nationwide and make language courses easier to access. The Office for Migration should process residence permits, benefits and naturalizations much faster.

Some migrants are not allowed to work. The Left wants to end these bans. Language courses should be available without long waits. The Office for Migration should work faster. Becoming a citizen should also be faster.

The Left rejects deportations, especially to war and crisis regions. It wants to restore the fundamental right to asylum without conditions and create a Hamburg admission program for the endangered relatives of Afghans living in the city.

The Left is against deportations. This is especially true for countries at war. The right to asylum should again apply without conditions. Afghans in Hamburg should be allowed to bring relatives who are in danger. Church asylum should stay protected.

The SPD wants to make it easier for skilled workers from abroad and for refugees to get into work. The Welcome Center is to receive more funding, foreign qualifications are to be recognized faster and language courses expanded.

Hamburg needs skilled workers. The SPD wants people from abroad to start working faster. Refugees should find work more easily too. There should be more language courses and faster recognition of degrees.

The SPD wants to expand targeted labor immigration while curbing unmanaged immigration. It backs swift implementation of the new EU asylum rules and affirms protection for the persecuted and for war refugees.

Hamburg needs workers from other countries. The SPD wants to bring in more of them in a targeted way. It wants to limit immigration that has no rules. It supports the EU's new asylum rules. Persecuted people should still get protection.

The SPD wants to enforce the obligation to leave where there is no right to stay. The number of priority deportations of criminal offenders is to keep rising.

Some people are not allowed to stay in Germany. The SPD wants them to actually leave. Offenders with no right to stay should be deported first. An investigation team will get more staff for this.

The SPD wants to create a state integration law that secures integration services permanently and makes them binding. Language support, humane housing for refugees and invitations to apply for citizenship are to continue.

The SPD wants an integration law for Hamburg. It should secure services for immigrants for the long term. Language-focused daycare centers should stay. People who can become German should get an invitation to apply.

The SPD wants to keep Europe open with a humane asylum system. In its view, this only works if burdens are shared fairly within the EU.

The SPD wants Europe to stay open. People who flee should be treated with dignity. EU countries should share the tasks fairly. This applies to money, housing, and help.