What do the parties in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania say on migration and integration?

The AfD wants to allow labor migration only when domestic options are exhausted and a specific need has been demonstrated. It gives priority to domestic workers and to bringing back skilled people who have left.

The AfD wants to find workers at home first. Skilled people who moved away should come back. Skilled workers from abroad should come only when truly needed. They should not receive welfare benefits.

The AfD wants children with a migration background to be taught first in separate preparatory classes where needed. There they are to learn German and basic social behavior. Only those who can follow lessons linguistically and socially should move to a regular class.

Some children do not speak enough German yet. The AfD wants separate classes for them. There they learn German and rules for getting along. Only after that should they join a normal class.

The AfD wants foreign offenders to lose their right of residence through the criminal verdict itself. For certain serious offenses and a prison sentence of at least one year, deportation with a permanent entry ban would follow automatically.

Foreigners who commit serious crimes should lose their right to stay. The criminal court should decide this in its verdict. This applies from one year in prison. The person must then leave the country. They may never come back.

The AfD wants to press the federal government for effective border protection by all legal and political means. As a last resort, it reserves the option of declaring a statewide freeze on taking in asylum seekers in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

The AfD wants the federal government to protect the borders better. It wants to put pressure on the federal government. As a last step, the state would take in no more asylum seekers. The AfD calls this an intake freeze.

The AfD wants to create a dedicated unit for border protection and returns within the state police. In addition, a police task force against foreign offenders would be established.

The AfD wants a new police unit in the state. It should protect the border and help with deportations. A second group should be added. This group deals with foreign offenders.

The AfD wants to examine changes to the Flüchtlingsaufnahmegesetz (refugee reception law) so that municipalities have a say in housing asylum seekers. Existing municipal accommodation would be scaled back and asylum seekers housed in a few large facilities.

Towns should have a say on shelters for asylum seekers. The AfD wants to change a law for this. Many shelters in towns should close. Asylum seekers should live in a few large shelters. This should save money.

The AfD wants to house people who are required to leave in separate state-run departure centers and to set up the state's own deportation detention facility. It cites the high number of failed deportations in recent years.

Some people must leave Germany. The AfD wants separate housing for them. The state should also get its own detention center for deportations. Dangerous people should wear an electronic ankle monitor.

The AfD wants asylum seekers and people required to leave to receive benefits in kind wherever possible, with no cash at all paid out in the departure centers. Asylum seekers would do unpaid work in municipal shelters. The party says this removes financial incentives for migration and encourages voluntary departure.

The AfD wants to stop giving money to asylum seekers. They should only get things like a bed, food and soap. Asylum seekers should work in their shelters without pay. The AfD says fewer people will come and more will leave.

The AfD wants the protection status of Syrian refugees in the state reviewed and revoked on a large scale, and wants the state to actively prepare their return. It points to the changed situation in Syria and argues that refugee protection is granted only temporarily.

The AfD wants Syrian refugees to go back to Syria. Their protection in Germany should end. The AfD says the situation in Syria has changed. Criminals from Syria should leave especially fast.

The AfD wants male unaccompanied minor asylum seekers aged 16 and older to be housed, as a rule, in shared shelters rather than in youth welfare facilities. It also wants age checks for all unaccompanied foreigners who claim to be minors.

Some young people come to Germany without parents. Today they mostly live in youth welfare homes. The AfD wants boys aged 16 and up to live in shared shelters. Their age should also always be checked.

The AfD wants to suspend family reunification as a general rule, review Ukrainian benefit recipients and return refugees whose claim to protection has ended. Kindergeld (child benefit) for children living abroad would be paid only at the rate usual in that country. The party argues that immigrants draw social benefits at a disproportionately high rate.

The AfD wants to stop refugees from bringing their families to Germany. People from Ukraine who get benefits should be checked. There should be less child benefit for children living abroad. The AfD says too many immigrants get money from the state.

The AfD wants to abolish the state's Integration and Participation Act and replace it with a migration regulation act. State funding for groups such as the Flüchtlingsrat MV (refugee council) would end. The party accuses the state government of seeking to replace a society shaped by German culture with a multicultural one.

The state has a law on integration and participation. The AfD wants to get rid of this law. A new law should put the interests of Germans first. Groups like the refugee council should get no more money from the state.

The AfD wants to strictly limit and reduce Muslim immigration to Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Islamic associations would be required to record and report extremist tendencies and individuals in their circles. The party argues that Islam, in its view, is not a secularly constituted religious community.

The AfD wants fewer Muslims to come to the state. Islamic associations should set up their own reporting offices. There they should report radical people from their circles. The AfD says the associations must help with public safety.

The Greens want to amend Mecklenburg-Vorpommern's school law. Children living in initial reception centers for refugees would gain a right to attend school.

Some children live in initial reception centers. Refugees stay there after they arrive. These children should get a right to go to school. The Greens want to change the school law for this.

The Greens want to create safe accommodation with private retreat spaces and more privacy for refugee women. Staff are to be trained, and those affected are to get specialized counseling and legal help. In residence law, the Istanbul Convention, a treaty on protecting women from violence, is to be implemented.

Refugee women are often in danger and have little privacy. The Greens want safe rooms just for women in shelters. Staff should be trained for this. The women should get counseling and legal help.

The Greens want reliable funding for integration work in the state and to reverse cuts made by the state government. The Integration and Participation Act is to be revised and the state administration opened up interculturally.

The Greens want more and secure money for integration. Integration means that immigrants become part of society. Language courses and counseling should get lasting funding. Government offices should be easy to use for everyone.

The Greens want to abolish the Bezahlkarte (a payment card on which refugees receive their benefits). Instead, all refugees are to get their own bank account with an unrestricted debit card so they can manage daily life independently.

Refugees now get their money on a payment card. The Greens want to end this card. Refugees should get their own bank account. They should be able to take out cash without limits.

The Greens reject deportations to areas where people face persecution and call for a deportation freeze for certain groups. Asylum procedures are to become fairer through independent counseling and an independent hardship commission.

The Greens want fewer deportations. Deportation means the state sends a person back to their home country. People from Afghanistan and Iran should be allowed to stay. The same goes for Yazidis. Refugees should get independent advice.

The Greens want to reform how refugees are housed: fewer shared shelters, more decentralized housing, and mandatory protection against violence. The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the UN Disability Rights Convention are also to be applied to refugees.

The Greens want better housing for refugees. There should be fewer large shared shelters. More refugees should live in regular apartments. There should be firm rules to protect people from violence.

The Left wants to end deportations to war zones, explicitly including Syria, Afghanistan and Iran. It calls for legal and safe escape routes and a state admission program of its own for Afghanistan. It calls the fundamental right to asylum non-negotiable.

The Left wants no deportations to war zones. That includes Syria, Afghanistan and Iran. People should be able to flee safely and legally. The state should take in people from Afghanistan itself.

The Left wants to give priority to decentralized housing for refugees and require protection plans with independent complaint offices in existing shelters. Integration is to be a task for every policy area. The party describes integration as a two-way process.

Refugees should live in apartments rather than big shelters where possible. Shelters should have fixed rules for protection. Refugees should be able to complain there. They should learn German early and be allowed to work.

The Left wants to abolish the payment card for refugees in its current form. The cap on cash withdrawals is to go, and bank transfers are to be allowed. Refugees should be able to take part in financial transactions on equal terms.

Refugees today get a payment card instead of cash. The Left does not want this card as it is now. Refugees should be able to withdraw as much cash as they want. They should also be able to transfer money.

The SPD wants to keep recruiting foreign skilled workers and trainees through a central service office. It also wants to keep funding a campaign for a welcoming culture in business, because the program sees right-wing extremism as a risk to the state as a business location.

The SPD wants to win skilled workers from other countries. One central office helps them and the companies. It helps with residence, diplomas and language. The SPD also wants newcomers to feel welcome.

The SPD commits to the immigration of trainees, workers and skilled professionals because the care sector still lacks staff. It wants to examine how foreign professional qualifications can be recognized faster.

There are not enough care workers. So the SPD wants to attract people from abroad. Their job qualifications should be recognized faster. This applies to medicine, care and administration.

The SPD wants to keep making public administration, education, the police and social services interculturally open and free of discrimination. Participation bodies for people with an immigration background are to be strengthened, and the party wants to counter hate online.

Public offices should treat everyone equally well. Staff should understand different cultures. This also applies to schools and the police. People with an immigrant background should have more say. The SPD wants to act against hate on the internet.

The SPD wants Mecklenburg-Vorpommern to grant protection and to enforce existing law consistently. Refugee children and teenagers should quickly get into daycare, schools, sports and culture, and families should move early from initial reception centers into municipalities.

The SPD wants to keep giving protection to refugees. Children should get into daycare and school quickly. Families should stay only briefly in the first shelter. The SPD expects everyone to follow the rules.

The SPD wants to expand language support and interpreting and to keep and extend counseling services for immigrants. The platform sees language as a precondition for participation.

The SPD wants more help with learning German. Daycare centers, schools and offices should have more interpreters. Counseling for immigrants should stay and grow. Volunteers should also get support.

The SPD wants to ease immigrants' path into work, including by allowing a switch from the asylum system to labor migration and by recognizing qualifications faster. The platform justifies this with the need for workers and skilled staff and with relief for public budgets.

The SPD wants immigrants to be able to work sooner. Degrees from abroad should be recognized faster. Women in particular should get help. The SPD says the state needs more workers.

The SPD wants to push at the federal level for a new voluntary year that combines language support with social engagement and practical experience. It is to be open to young people with and without an immigrant background and to foster encounters.

The SPD wants a new voluntary year for young people. They learn German and help in social institutions. Young people with and without an immigrant background can join. Nobody has to take part.