What do the parties in Rhineland-Palatinate say on migration and integration?

The AfD frames its migration policy as "integration or remigration." Foreigners without a right to stay would have to leave if they are criminal, extremist or dangerous, rely on welfare, or no longer have grounds for protection. German citizens, including naturalized ones, are explicitly excluded.

The AfD wants certain foreigners to leave Germany. It calls this remigration. It is about foreigners with no right to stay, for example offenders. People with a German passport are not affected.

The AfD wants to tie German citizenship to strict conditions. It should come only at the end of a successful integration process, which the program says usually takes at least ten years. Integration courses and tests would become more binding and affect welfare benefits and the right to stay.

The AfD wants to make it harder to get a German passport. People should speak German well and live from their own work. They must not have committed crimes. People who fail integration courses should face disadvantages.

The AfD wants to keep the existing border checks, which it says have proven effective against smugglers and unauthorized entry. In addition, unauthorized entry via airports is to be stopped.

The AfD wants to keep checks at the borders. It says the checks have worked well. Nobody should be able to enter without permission at airports either.

The AfD wants to deport large numbers of people who are required to leave and to centralize the procedures at state level. Hahn airport would become the central deportation airport with its own return center. Priority would go to deporting foreigners who have committed crimes or are classed as dangerous.

The AfD wants to deport many more people. The state should organize deportations centrally. A deportation center is to be built at Hahn airport. Offenders and dangerous people should go first.

The AfD wants to dissolve the state's hardship commission without replacement and carry out deportations even from church asylum. It rejects on principle the discretionary toleration permits (Duldung) granted by immigration offices. In its view, asylum decisions should not be bypassed by state bodies or churches.

The AfD wants to abolish the hardship commission. This body can let rejected asylum seekers stay. People should also be deported from church asylum. Offices should only grant toleration permits for compelling reasons.

The AfD wants to immediately stop all state programs for admission, for so-called "lane changes," and for integration. Only the voluntary departure program would remain. The party argues that society's capacity to take people in has been exceeded.

The AfD wants to stop all programs for taking in refugees right away. Integration programs should end too. Only help for leaving voluntarily should stay. The party says the state cannot take in more people.

The AfD wants to keep rejected asylum seekers in state reception facilities for as long as the law allows before distributing them to towns and cities. Overburdened municipalities would not have to take in more asylum seekers. The state would reimburse municipalities for all asylum costs.

The AfD wants to ease the burden on towns and cities. Rejected asylum seekers should only move to towns after 24 months. Overloaded towns should not have to take anyone in. The state should pay all asylum costs.

The AfD wants asylum seekers in initial reception to receive, as a rule, only benefits in kind. Payment cards would be capped at 50 euros a month, and asylum seekers would be assigned to community work. The party wants to reduce financial incentives for migration.

The AfD wants to stop giving money to asylum seekers. They should get food, clothing and hygiene items. The payment card should hold at most 50 euros a month. Asylum seekers should also do community work.

The AfD supports immigration of qualified workers where there is demand that cannot be met by local workers. Foreign vocational qualifications would be recognized with little red tape but without lower standards. The party also wants to encourage Germans who have emigrated to return.

The AfD supports skilled workers coming in when companies need them. Foreign job qualifications should be recognized more easily. But they must be as good as German ones. Germans living abroad should find it easier to come back.

The CDU wants to set up intensive classes at secondary schools for children and teenagers who do not know enough German. Only once they have sufficient command of the language are they to move into regular classes. The party sees language skills as a condition for success at school.

The CDU wants special German classes. Children and teenagers first learn German well there. Only then do they join a regular class. The party says school does not work without German.

The CDU wants to manage and limit migration. Asylum seekers would stay in initial reception centers until their case is decided and, if they have no right to stay, be deported directly from there. To do this, the party plans a central immigration authority and a state-run deportation facility.

The CDU wants less unregulated immigration. Asylum cases should take only a few months. Asylum seekers would stay in a state facility during that time. People who may not stay would be deported from there. A central office would organize this.

The CDU wants asylum seekers to receive support as benefits in kind rather than cash, aligned with neighboring states. Intake should be based on how many people municipalities can absorb, and the state should cover a larger share of the costs.

Asylum seekers would get housing, food and care instead of money. The CDU wants to align this with neighboring states. Towns should only take in as many people as they can manage. The state should pay more of the costs.

The CDU sees integration as an obligation. It wants a binding integration agreement and mandatory language, integration and orientation courses from day one. Refugees with a permanent right to stay should get early access to work.

The CDU says integration is a duty. Immigrants would get an agreement that lists their duties. Language courses would be required from the first day. There would also be required courses on values in Germany. People who may stay should be able to work quickly.

The Greens want refugees to move quickly from initial reception centers into towns and villages. Municipalities are to get support in expanding their capacity, and children are to gain early access to school.

Refugees should not stay long in large shelters. They should move quickly into towns and villages. The Greens want to help the towns with this. Children should go to school as early as possible.

The Greens want to set up a central state office that bundles integration, immigration and returns and relieves municipalities. A state integration law is to lock in firm rules and structures.

The Greens want a new state office. It handles integration, immigration and returns. Returns means that people have to leave the country. A new law should set firm rules for integration. Families should be able to join their relatives more easily.

The Greens see language and work as the keys to participation. They want to expand language courses and interpreting, recognize qualifications faster and secure a right to stay for well-integrated people in work or training.

The Greens want more German courses for immigrants. Degrees from other countries should be accepted faster. People who work here and support themselves should be allowed to stay. Refugees who went through hard times should get more help.

The Greens want to identify refugees with special protection needs early and give them targeted support, for example families, children and traumatized people. They will examine deportation stops for vulnerable groups and state-run admission programs. They reject detention-like housing under the EU asylum reform (GEAS).

Some refugees need special protection. These include children, families and people with mental trauma. The Greens want to find these people early and help them. They will check whether the state can stop deporting such people. They reject housing that is like a prison.

The Greens want successful integration to count for more when deciding whether a person may remain. Families, children, young people and people with jobs should not be deported. Those who commit serious crimes and reject the Basic Law, by contrast, should have to leave.

The Greens want this: people who are well integrated should be more likely to stay. Families, children and young people should not be deported. The same goes for people who work. People who commit serious crimes should leave the country.

The SPD wants to make Rhineland-Palatinate more attractive to foreign skilled workers and relies on fast procedures with clear standards. The central immigration office for skilled workers is to become a digital service agency, and job-related language training is to be expanded.

The SPD wants to attract more skilled workers from abroad. Procedures should be faster. One office should offer everything digitally and in one place. There should be more language courses for work.

The SPD wants to organize returns more centrally to relieve municipalities and to deport people who are required to leave but do not go voluntarily. Immigration and naturalization offices are to recruit more staff, and asylum cases are to be decided quickly.

The SPD wants faster asylum procedures. The offices should get more staff. The state should handle more deportations itself. People who do not leave on their own should be deported. This applies above all to criminals.

The SPD wants to ease the path to a German passport for people who have lived in the state for many years. Naturalization procedures are to become fully digital and thus faster and more transparent.

Some people have lived in Rhineland-Palatinate for a long time. The SPD wants to make naturalization easier for them. Naturalization means getting German citizenship. Applications should be digital and faster.

The SPD wants to support immigrants in learning German from the start and get them into work quickly. At the same time, skilled workers from abroad are to gain easier access to the labor market.

The SPD wants immigrants to learn German quickly. There will be language courses from daycare to adult education. People should find work fast. Companies get help when they look for skilled workers from abroad.

The SPD advocates that everyone living permanently in a municipality should be allowed to vote there, even without a passport from an EU country. In the party's view, those who live somewhere permanently should help decide its future.

Today only Germans and EU citizens can vote in local elections. The SPD wants to change that. Everyone who lives there permanently should be allowed to vote. This includes people from countries outside the EU.