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

The AfD wants to deport foreign offenders after they serve their sentence, regardless of residence status, and to impose permanent entry bans on extremists, people deemed security threats and violent offenders. People required to leave who do not go voluntarily would be detained until deportation.

Foreigners who commit crimes should have to leave after prison. This should apply whatever their residence status is. Dangerous foreigners should never be allowed back. People who must leave but stay should be locked up. The AfD wants to build more detention places for this.

The AfD wants to stop unauthorized entries and entries from safe third countries through border controls and to deport everyone required to leave immediately. It rejects the UN migration compact and the UN refugee compact because it sees national interests being put second.

The AfD wants to control the borders. Nobody should enter without permission. People who must leave the country should go at once. The AfD rejects two United Nations agreements on migration and refugees. It says Germany should decide for itself who comes.

The AfD wants to recruit skilled workers from outside Europe only as a last resort. Needed workers should come primarily from neighboring European countries, and unemployed residents should be brought into the labor market more.

The AfD wants to bring in workers from far away only if nothing else works. Workers from nearby European countries should come first. Jobless people in the country should find work. Well-trained people should not move away from Germany.

The AfD wants to replace cash benefits for asylum seekers with in-kind benefits as far as legally possible and to set up reception centers outside the EU. Asylum seekers should contribute to the costs of proceedings, housing and care. The age of unaccompanied minors should be subject to mandatory medical checks.

Asylum seekers should mostly get goods instead of money. Centers for asylum seekers should be set up outside the EU. Asylum seekers should pay part of the costs themselves. Doctors should check the age of young people who arrive without parents. Those who lie about their age should have to leave.

The AfD wants to equip all authorities involved in asylum proceedings with identity verification technology and register the data centrally and digitally in Hesse. Anyone who gives false information or refuses to cooperate should be deported promptly.

Authorities should check carefully who an asylum seeker is. They should get technical devices for this. The data should be stored in one central place. People who give false information should be deported. This also applies to asylum seekers who commit serious crimes.

The AfD wants to deport without delay everyone who is legally required to leave and to stop church asylum. Sections 25a and 25b of the Residence Act, which allow well-integrated people with tolerated status to obtain a right to stay, would be removed. Countries that refuse to take back rejected asylum seekers would lose financial aid.

The AfD wants faster deportations. Churches should no longer be able to shield people from deportation. Two rules now give some people without residence rights a right to stay. The AfD wants to scrap these rules. Countries that do not take back their citizens should get no more money.

The AfD rejects all family reunification for refugees and asylum seekers and wants families reunited in the country of origin instead. Municipalities should decide for themselves how many asylum seekers they can take in, and the federal government should cover all costs.

Refugees should not be allowed to bring their families to Germany. Families should come together again in the home country. Towns and cities should say for themselves how many people they take in. The federal government should pay all costs.

The AfD wants an organized return of all foreigners required to leave and, instead of integration measures, wants refugees to be taught skills for returning to their home countries. Naturalization should come only at the end of successful integration; those unwilling to integrate should face sanctions up to deportation.

The AfD wants refugees to go back to their home countries. They should learn useful skills for that. People who must leave the country should be taken back in an organized way. Only well-integrated people should get a German passport. People who do not want to integrate should be punished.

The AfD wants to abolish acquiring German citizenship by birth in the country and return to the descent principle that applied before 2000. It rejects dual citizenship; anyone who becomes German should give up their previous nationality.

Today, children of foreigners can become German by being born in Germany. The AfD wants to end this. Only people with German parents or people who are naturalized should be German. Nobody should have two passports. For serious crimes, the state should check whether to take citizenship away.

The AfD wants regular statistics published on how migrants from individual countries of origin fare in employment, welfare benefits, education and crime. Following Denmark's example, data should also show which groups contribute more in taxes or draw more in benefits.

The AfD wants to collect more figures about migrants. The figures should be split by country of origin. They cover work, welfare benefits, education and crime. The figures should be published regularly. Denmark is the model for this.

The AfD wants to offer immigrant and refugee women targeted German courses. Once their asylum status is recognized, they should get easy access to the labor market and to training according to their qualifications. The platform also sees integration as the women's own responsibility.

Immigrant women should be able to learn German. The AfD wants to offer them courses for this. With recognized asylum they should be allowed to work easily. There should be child care during the courses. The women should also make their own effort to integrate.

The CDU wants to bring qualified workers from abroad to Hesse faster and create a "fast lane" for them. Procedures for skilled workers are to be separated from those for people seeking protection and streamlined overall.

Hesse needs more skilled workers. The CDU wants to bring skilled workers from abroad faster. Their applications should run separately from asylum cases. Foreign degrees should be recognized faster. There should be more visas for skilled workers.

The CDU follows the principle of "support and demand" and wants to write integration duties explicitly into the Hessian Integration Act. German courses and courses on civics and basic values are to be mandatory; at the same time, support programs are to continue and expand.

The CDU wants to put duties for people with a migration background into law. They should learn German. They should take courses about the country and its values. These courses should be required. The state should keep supporting integration.

The CDU rejects general dual citizenship because, in its view, civic loyalty should not be divided. It also rejects the plans of the federal "traffic light" coalition for shorter residence periods and lower requirements for naturalization.

The CDU does not want dual citizenship for everyone. It says a person should belong to only one state. The federal government wants to make naturalization easier. The CDU is against that. Naturalization should come only after successful integration.

The CDU commits to protecting people in need but wants to manage and limit immigration to avoid overburdening the state and society. It backs mandatory asylum procedures at the EU's external borders and wants to consistently enforce the obligation to leave for people with no right to stay.

The CDU wants to protect people in need. But fewer people should come to Germany. Asylum claims should be checked at Europe's borders. People who may not stay should leave the country. The CDU says towns are overwhelmed otherwise.

The CDU wants EU law to explicitly regulate turning people back at the external borders and calls for a reform of the Common European Asylum System and the Schengen rules. Public funding for private sea rescue should end. In the platform's view, open internal borders depend on secure external ones.

The CDU wants better protection for the EU's outer borders. EU law should say when people can be turned back there. Private sea rescue groups should no longer get state money. The EU's asylum rules should also change.

The CDU wants reception, asylum and court procedures to run quickly and under the rule of law. Anyone who deceives about their identity or fails to cooperate should be denied any further right to stay. Protection from deportation during a petition would be capped at three months.

The CDU wants faster asylum procedures. People who show a passport should get a quick decision. People who lie about who they are should not be allowed to stay. A petition should block deportation for 3 months at most. A petition is a request to the state parliament.

The CDU wants to strengthen counties and municipalities with money and staff for receiving refugees, because the platform says they are reaching their limits. In providing for refugees, benefits in kind should take priority over cash.

Many towns and counties struggle to take in refugees. The CDU wants to give them more money and staff. Refugees should get goods rather than cash. People who help refugees should get support.

The CDU wants to set up state-run shelters where people stay until their residence status is settled. Only those with a residence permit would be assigned to municipalities. The initial reception center in Giessen would take on more responsibilities and a central office for unaccompanied minors.

The CDU wants to set up shelters run by the state. People stay there until it is clear if they may remain. Only people with a residence permit move to towns. Deportations happen straight from these shelters. Giessen would get an office for young people without parents.

The CDU wants people who are legally required to leave to actually depart, and plans to expand deportation detention and pre-departure custody. More states are to be classed as safe countries of origin. The platform justifies this with capacity for those in need of protection and public acceptance.

People who must leave should really leave the country. The CDU wants more places for deportation detention. Leaving by choice comes before force. Criminals should leave especially fast. More countries should count as safe.

The CDU wants to press the federal government for a different course on refugee policy. It rejects the Chancen-Aufenthaltsrecht (opportunity residence right) for people long tolerated and the switch from the asylum track to work-based residence, arguing that both create incentives for unauthorized entry.

The CDU opposes the federal government's refugee policy. It rejects new rights to stay for tolerated people. It says this draws more people into the country without permission. The federal government should deport faster.

The CDU wants to keep supporting expellees and Spätaussiedler (ethnic German resettlers), citing their contribution to rebuilding the country. Hesse is to keep taking in resettlers, and at the federal level the party wants to push for better pension rules and a fairer hardship fund.

Spätaussiedler are ethnic Germans who move to Germany from Eastern Europe. The CDU wants Hesse to keep taking them in. They should get better pensions. The CDU wants to push for this at the federal level. The state offices for expellees should stay.

The CDU wants to expand the Hasselroth facility into housing and an education and community center for Spätaussiedler (ethnic German resettlers). Because the party sees resettlers as German citizens rather than migrants, they are to be housed separately.

The CDU wants to expand the facility in Hasselroth. Young resettlers and families should live there. There should be language classes and career advice. The CDU says resettlers are Germans. So they should be housed apart from other newcomers.

The CDU acknowledges the contributions of Muslims to Hesse and wants to integrate Muslim culture and ways of life more closely into society. The Dialog-Forum Islam is to become permanent, and mosque communities are to be supported in pastoral care, social work and integration.

The CDU wants to keep talking with Muslim communities. The Islam dialogue forum should become permanent. Mosques should open up to their neighbors, for example with festivals. The CDU wants to support this.

The FDP wants to integrate refugee children and teenagers through lasting German-language support at schools and raise the age limit for intensive support to 21. It sees multilingualism as an asset and wants to expand heritage-language teaching.

Refugee children and teenagers should get German support for a long time. The special support should be possible up to age 21. Today it ends at 18. The FDP also wants to strengthen lessons in the family's language.

The FDP backs an immigration law with a points system modeled on Canada's and wants Hesse to set up a central immigration office for skilled workers. It points to the shortage of workers and skilled labor, which it sees as a major threat to the state's economy.

Hesse lacks many skilled workers. The FDP wants more well-trained people from abroad to come. A points system should be used for this. One central office should handle these cases. Applications should be processed faster.

The FDP expects everyone who immigrates to accept the free democratic basic order without reservation. Those unwilling to do so should not be able to stay permanently; deportations are to be carried out consistently and the list of safe countries of origin expanded.

People who come to Germany should accept the rules of democracy. Those who do not should not be allowed to stay forever. The FDP wants deportations to be carried out consistently. More countries should count as safe countries of origin.

The FDP wants to strengthen projects through which citizens shape integration locally. The Hessian Integration Prize is to be awarded more widely, and places where people can meet are to be expanded in order to reduce prejudice.

Integration happens locally, for example in clubs and schools. The FDP wants to honor such projects more. More projects should get the Hessian Integration Prize. Meeting places like a culture café should also get support.

The FDP sees learning German early as the most important building block of integration and wants a broad range of courses whose use is monitored more closely. In addition, every person who immigrates should be required to have basic knowledge of the political system and fundamental rights.

The FDP wants many ways to learn German. It wants to check more closely that people really attend the courses. Language apps should help too. Every immigrant should have to know something about politics and basic rights in Germany.

The FDP wants all new arrivals to be allowed to work right away, regardless of whether they are likely to be able to stay. Foreign qualifications are to be recognized faster and more flexibly; the work permit is not to create any right to remain.

People who are new in Germany should be allowed to work right away. This should apply to everyone, even if they may not be allowed to stay. Foreign degrees should be recognized faster. But the work permit gives no right to stay.

The Greens want to expand language support and integration courses and recognize foreign qualifications faster. People should have equal opportunities in education, work and housing regardless of their origin.

The Greens want to offer more German classes. This applies to children and adults. Degrees from abroad should count sooner. All people should have the same chances.

The Greens want to push at the federal level for voting rights for everyone living permanently in Germany. In Hesse, naturalization and the political representation of migrants are to be promoted and dealings with government agencies simplified.

The Greens want this: People who live here for good should be able to vote. They want to push for this at the federal level. Government offices should be easier to deal with. Key forms should come in several languages.

The Greens want Hesse to take in refugees beyond its share under the nationwide distribution and help them build a secure life. They rely on good initial care, rapid decentralized housing and legal escape routes.

The Greens want to help people who had to flee. Hesse should do more than its duty. Refugees should move quickly into normal housing. They should be able to see a doctor more easily.

The Greens want agencies to check systematically whether refugees who have lived here a long time and are well integrated can stay permanently. Switching from the asylum track to the immigration track is to become easier, also because of the skilled-labor shortage.

Some refugees have lived here a long time and are well integrated. The Greens want them to be able to stay. Government offices should check this carefully. No one should be pulled out of a job or training.

The Greens want to professionalize schooling for immigrant children and teenagers to prevent broken educational paths. Intensive language classes are to become smaller and exist at all types of schools. The party rejects deportations from schools.

The Greens want better lessons for immigrant children. German language classes should be smaller. All types of schools should offer them. No one should be deported from a school.

The Greens regard deportations as measures under the rule of law that should be carried out carefully and proportionately. Voluntary departure is to take priority. Return counseling is to be reviewed and developed further if needed.

Not all refugees can stay in Germany. The Greens want these people to go back by choice if possible. That is better than deportation. Deportations should be carried out with care. Children and families need special attention.

The SPD wants to expand German-language support while also extending heritage-language teaching under the state's responsibility. Greek and Turkish are to count at secondary schools as foreign languages relevant for moving up a grade. Intensive classes are again to have no more than twelve children.

The SPD wants more help with learning German. More teachers should be able to teach German as a second language. Children should also be able to learn their family's language at school. Greek and Turkish should count as foreign languages. Classes for newly arrived children should get smaller.

The SPD wants a state admission program for refugees from crisis regions and better conditions for refugees in Hesse. They are to move into their own homes quickly and live independently. Municipalities are to get more support from the state for housing them.

The SPD wants Hesse to take in people from crisis regions. Refugees should get their own home quickly. Children should go to school right away. The state should help towns and cities with housing.

The SPD wants a right to free integration and language courses for EU citizens and people with a migration background as well. It sees this as a precondition for participation in society. Simpler official language and more migration counseling are also planned.

The SPD wants free language courses for more people. People from other EU countries should also have a right to them. There should be childcare during the courses. Public offices should write in simpler language. There should be more counseling for immigrants.