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

The AfD wants to make German the mandatory language in Saxon daycare centers and limit children who do not speak German to at most 10 percent per group. Children from families without long-term prospects of staying are to be cared for separately by native speakers where needed. The party justifies this with the language development of all children.

German should be required in daycare centers in Saxony. In a group, at most one child in ten should not speak German. Some families may not stay for good. Their children should go to separate centers. There they are cared for in their own language.

The AfD calls for a headscarf ban in schools and daycare centers and wants to keep political Islam from gaining influence there. Children with no prospect of staying would be prepared in school for returning to their country of origin. According to the platform, migration comes at the expense of native students.

The AfD wants to ban headscarves in schools and daycare centers. Muslim children should take part in swimming and sports. Some children are not allowed to stay in Germany. School should prepare them for going back.

The AfD wants to move available riot police units to Saxony's border area and use every lawful police measure to stop unauthorized entry. Claims for protection would be screened before entry is allowed. People arriving from a safe third country would be refused entry.

The AfD wants to send more police to the border. Nobody should enter without permission. Officials should check before entry whether a person needs protection. Only then may the person come in.

The AfD wants Saxony to stop taking in further asylum seekers, arguing that municipalities are overwhelmed by the numbers assigned to them. Local governments would get a say in housing decisions. Voluntary admission programs would end, and asylum applications would be decided in centers abroad.

The AfD wants Saxony to take in no new asylum seekers. It says towns can no longer cope. Towns should have a say in housing them. Asylum requests should be checked in other countries.

The AfD wants deportations enforced more consistently at state and federal level, especially for people deemed security threats, criminal offenders and those who refuse to integrate. Criminal courts would be able to revoke residence permits and order deportation directly. Dublin cases would be returned to the responsible countries.

The AfD wants to deport more people. That means they must leave Germany. Criminal courts should be allowed to order a deportation themselves. This should apply above all to offenders.

The AfD wants asylum seekers and people with tolerated status to receive benefits in kind rather than cash, without exception, and to be tied to an assigned place of residence. It argues that cash benefits attract poverty migration and are misused. Those without a regular job would have to do community work.

Asylum seekers should no longer get cash. They should get things like food and clothes directly. They should not be free to leave their assigned area. People without a job should do work for the community.

The AfD wants to house asylum applicants and people with tolerated status centrally in transfer centers, separated by religion and supervised by the state interior ministry. The number of places for deportation detention and departure custody there would rise to at least 350. Children required to leave would be taught inside the centers.

Asylum seekers should live in large central shelters. The AfD calls them transfer centers. People there should live separated by religion. There should be at least 350 places for deportation detention.

The AfD wants to fund only protection and basic provision for people with subsidiary protection, those required to leave and those with tolerated status, because in the party's view they must soon leave the country. State-funded integration measures for them would largely end. The age of unaccompanied minors would be carefully determined.

Some people may stay in Germany only for a short time. The AfD wants to pay only for their basic needs. They should not get integration courses. Young refugees without parents should have their age checked.

The AfD calls for a fundamental reform of federal asylum and immigration law. The right to asylum in the Basic Law would be replaced by an ordinary statute, and immigration would be based solely on need. The party rejects switching from the asylum track to regular immigration.

Today the right to asylum is in Germany's constitution. The AfD wants to remove it from there. It should only be in a normal law. Only people Germany needs should be allowed to immigrate.

The AfD opposes the continued lowering of requirements for German citizenship. In its view, citizenship must not be used to cover up a lack of willingness to integrate. Naturalized dual nationals who support terrorism would lose their German citizenship again.

The AfD does not want to make the German passport easier to get. It is against lower requirements. Some people have two passports and support terrorism. They should lose the German passport.

The BSW wants to limit immigration so that integration can succeed. Asylum applications should be filed and decided at the EU's external borders and in third countries. The party stands by the basic right to asylum for persecuted people.

The BSW wants less immigration. People should apply for asylum at the EU's borders. Or in other countries outside the EU. The decision should be made there too. Only people who get protection should receive benefits in Germany. The right to asylum should stay.

The BSW wants people required to leave Germany to actually leave, and migrants who commit crimes to be deported. Asylum seekers required to leave should receive at most the constitutionally required minimum, provided in kind. A payment card is to be introduced statewide.

Some people are required to leave Germany. The BSW wants them to really leave. Migrants who commit many crimes should be deported. People who must leave should get only the bare minimum. They should get goods, not cash. Asylum seekers should get a payment card.

The BSW wants to achieve integration through language skills and work. It calls for more German courses, mandatory language tests for children from age three and better recognition of foreign qualifications. Asylum seekers should take on simple support tasks while their case is pending.

The BSW wants more German courses. All children from age 3 should take a German test. Children who know too little German must go to daycare. Foreign qualifications should be recognized more easily. Asylum seekers should do simple jobs.

The CDU wants to attract skilled workers from abroad to Saxony and use recruitment centers in selected countries to do so. Small and mid-sized companies should find it easier to make use of this immigration, for example through temporary agency work. The party sees this as a response to the demand for workers.

Saxony lacks skilled workers. So the CDU wants to bring well-trained people from other countries. There should be offices in some countries for this. Small companies should get help with it. People who studied in Saxony should also stay.

The CDU wants to push at the federal level for a flexible cap on asylum seekers, set at no more than 60,000 people in the coming years. It argues that housing, schools and German courses are reaching their limits. Family reunification would also be restricted to the nuclear family.

The CDU wants fewer refugees in Germany. At most 60,000 asylum seekers should come each year. Only the closest family should be allowed to follow. The CDU says there are not enough homes, school places and German classes.

The CDU calls for fixed border checks that allow people to be turned back, plus random police checks near the border. This is to apply until, in its view, the Schengen system works again. The aim is to permanently reduce irregular migration into Germany.

The CDU wants fixed checks at the borders. Police should be able to send people back there. This should last until Europe's rules work again. Saxony's police should patrol together with Poland and Czechia.

The CDU advocates holding asylum and protection-status procedures in countries outside the EU. Rule-of-law principles are to be upheld in the process. Within Saxony, asylum procedures are to be sped up.

The CDU wants asylum cases handled in countries outside the EU. Officials there would check who gets protection. The rules of the rule of law should apply. In Saxony, cases should go faster.

The CDU wants rejected asylum seekers without a right to stay returned quickly to their home countries. A police unit that assists with deportations is to be expanded. From the federal government it demands more safe countries of origin and departure centers at major airports.

The CDU wants to send rejected asylum seekers back quickly. A police unit should help more with this. Offenders and people seen as dangerous should go first. The federal government should build departure centers at big airports.

The CDU opposes lowering the requirements for German citizenship. Anyone who wants to live in Germany should follow the rules and contribute to society.

The CDU does not want to make it easier to become a citizen. The conditions for a German passport should not be lowered. People who live here should follow the rules.

The CDU wants to integrate people with a right to stay and get them into work faster, with language learning seen as the most important key. At the same time it expects newcomers to follow the rules and wants to remove what it sees as false incentives, for example through the payment card.

The CDU wants to help people who are allowed to stay. They should learn German quickly and work. They should live in normal housing. In return, they should follow the rules. Asylum seekers get a payment card instead of cash.

The CDU wants to support Spätaussiedler (ethnic German resettlers from Eastern Europe) in education, work and social participation. Their life achievements are to be recognized more strongly, especially when pensions are calculated.

Spätaussiedler are people of German descent who moved to Germany from Eastern Europe. The CDU wants to help them in school and at work. Their life's work should count for more. This matters most for pensions. Young resettlers should find it easier to learn German.

The Free Voters want to prioritize training workers at home but see Saxony as partly dependent on skilled workers from abroad because of its demographics. These workers should be able to work in Saxony without unnecessary hurdles when needed, kept separate from the asylum system.

Saxony does not have enough workers. The Free Voters want to train people at home first. But they also want skilled workers from other countries. These workers should find it easier to work in Saxony. Asylum and work migration should stay separate.

The Free Voters want to work in the Bundesrat to stop illegal migration and remove what they see as false incentives. Anyone who deliberately conceals their identity is not to be allowed across the border; asylum seekers are to receive benefits in kind rather than cash as a priority.

The Free Voters want to stop illegal entry. People who hide who they are should not get into the country. Asylum seekers should get goods rather than money. The borders should be better protected.

The Greens want to make Saxony a "safe harbor" for refugees. Asylum seekers should stay in reception centers for no more than three months and then live in municipal housing that is as decentralized as possible. Counseling, social work and the protection of children are to be strengthened.

The Greens want to give refugees in Saxony better help. They should live in large reception centers only for a short time. After three months they should move to smaller housing. Children should be able to play and learn there. There should be more advice and support.

The Greens want binding guidelines for deportations in Saxony. Families should no longer be separated, people should no longer be deported at night, and those who want to leave voluntarily should not be deported. The party justifies this with the suffering and trauma it says deportations cause.

The Greens want firm rules for deportations. Families should stay together. There should be no deportations at night. People who want to leave on their own should not be deported. Independent observers should check the whole process.

The Greens want a state law on participation and integration that covers all immigrants. It would create permanent structures such as commissioners and advisory councils. Immigration offices are to be better equipped and work more toward integration.

The Greens want a law on integration. It should apply to all immigrants in Saxony. Districts should have commissioners and councils for migrants. Immigration offices should get more staff and work faster. Forms should be available in several languages.

The Greens want adult immigrants to be able to attend language courses from the start and without exception. The courses should be easy to access, and job-related courses and formats for parents are to be expanded.

The Greens want German courses for all immigrants. The courses should start right after arrival. There should be more courses for work. Parents should get courses that fit family life. There should be more teachers for language courses.

The Greens want to make full use of the option to switch from the asylum system into labor migration. Anyone who wants to work in Saxony should be allowed to, including people with tolerated status. Early language training, counseling and support for employers are meant to speed up integration into work.

The Greens want refugees to be able to work sooner. People with tolerated status should also be allowed to work. They should learn German early. Immigration offices should use the leeway they have. Companies should get help too.

The Greens want to simplify the recognition of foreign qualifications and build a welcoming culture in Saxony. In the platform's view, only an open-minded Saxony attracts skilled workers. This includes fighting racism and antisemitism and making working life more multilingual.

The Greens want to make it easier to recognize foreign qualifications. Saxony should be open to people from other countries. Racism and hatred of Jews should be fought. More languages should be possible at work.

The Left wants to give immigrants quicker access to the labor market, above all through easier recognition of qualifications and work experience. It defends the right to asylum as a humanitarian duty and sees immigration as an opportunity for Saxony. In its view, public concerns can only be reduced through faster integration.

The Left wants to protect the right to asylum. Immigrants should be allowed to work sooner. Degrees from other countries should count more quickly. The immigration offices should help people with this.

The Left wants permanent support for German as a second language at every school. In its view, language support ends too early when children move from preparatory classes into regular classes.

Immigrant children should get help learning German at every school. The help should not stop after one or two years. This needs well-trained teachers. Schools should get lasting funding and materials.

The Left wants to support young people with a migration background before and during their apprenticeship, including on residency questions. It rejects deportations on principle. The platform sees this as a matter of fairness and a way to counter the labor shortage.

Young immigrants should get help with their apprenticeship. They should also get help with residency law. The Left is against deportations on principle. Foreign qualifications should be accepted faster.

The Left wants refugees to live in their own apartments as a rule, rather than in shared accommodation, and to choose freely where they live. It seeks a fundamental shift in Saxony's asylum policy and wants to support family reunification through state admission programs.

The Left wants refugees to live in their own apartments. No one should have to live in a shared shelter. Refugees should choose where they live. Families should be able to join them more easily.

The Left calls for a right-to-stay drive: authorities should use their discretion so that people with only a tolerated status can remain, and refugees should receive a residence permit after three years in Saxony. Detention pending deportation is to be abolished because, in the party's view, fleeing is not a crime.

The Left wants more refugees to be allowed to stay. Anyone who has lived in Saxony for three years should get a residence permit. No one should be locked up before a deportation. Immigration offices should be friendlier and simpler.

The Left wants to give refugees a health insurance card with full coverage from day one and end their less favorable treatment under the Asylum Seekers' Benefits Act. It considers Saxony's existing integration law inadequate and calls for an integration and participation law.

The Left wants refugees to get a health card right away. They should get the same benefits as other people on welfare. Saxony should get a new law on participation. The state should pay for integration.

The Left wants to dissolve the EU border agency Frontex because, according to the platform, it violates refugees' human rights. Saxony is to push for the EU to guarantee the right to asylum, and the party opposes border checks within the Schengen area.

The Left wants to dissolve Frontex. Frontex is the border agency of the European Union. The party says Frontex violates the rights of refugees. The EU should secure the right to asylum. There should be no border checks between EU countries.

The SPD wants to keep funding integration structures and local engagement and to further develop the Saxon Participation and Integration Act. It says Saxony will continue to depend on immigration. Those without a permanent right to stay should leave, provided this is possible and humane.

The SPD wants to help people who are new in Saxony. There should be good services and local help. The integration law should be improved. People who may not stay should leave if that is possible and humane.

The SPD calls Saxony a state of immigration and wants to attract workers from abroad. Foreign qualifications are to be recognized faster, family reunification made easier for people in work, and immigration offices turned into welcome offices.

Saxony needs workers from other countries. The SPD wants to recruit them. Their degrees should be accepted faster. Their families should be able to join them more easily. The offices should decide quickly and help.

The SPD wants to get refugees into work quickly so they can build a prospect of staying regardless of their residence status. The Chancen-Aufenthaltsrecht (opportunity residence permit) is to be implemented as well as possible by the authorities.

Refugees should be allowed to work quickly. People who work should have a chance to stay. Young refugees without a diploma should get into school or training fast. The offices should carry this out well.

The SPD wants to require authorities to always use their discretion in favor of granting work or training permits. Refugees should be able to stay as long as their job or training lasts, and targeted immigration of skilled workers is to be strengthened.

Refugees should find it easier to work or start job training. Offices should use every option to allow this. Anyone with a job or training place should be allowed to stay during that time. Saxony should also attract skilled workers from abroad.

The SPD wants to make naturalization easier and faster and welcomes the reform of citizenship law. The Chancen-Aufenthaltsrecht (opportunity residence permit) is to be applied as fully as possible in Saxony, and the hardship commission is to be strengthened.

People from other countries should find it easier to become German citizens. The process should be faster. People who are well integrated should be allowed to stay in Saxony. The SPD wants to make good use of a new federal law for this. The commission for hardship cases should also be able to do more.

The SPD wants children in initial reception centers to be able to attend regular daycare centers and schools. Stays in reception centers are to be as short as possible for children and teenagers, and language courses for parents are to come with childcare.

Refugee children first live in large shelters. There are hardly any lessons there. The SPD wants these children to go to normal daycare and schools. They should stay in these shelters only for a short time. Parents should be able to learn German while someone looks after their children.

The SPD wants to give refugees an electronic health card so they can see a doctor without a detour. At present, during their first months they need a voucher from the municipality before each treatment.

At first, refugees need a paper from a public office before they can see a doctor. The SPD wants to change that. Refugees should get a health card. With it they can go straight to the doctor.

The SPD wants to fund municipalities reliably for their integration tasks and adjust the flat-rate payments. Municipal integration centers are to bundle services of the same standard in every county and independent city.

Integration happens in towns and cities. The SPD wants to give them secure money for it. Every county should have an integration center. The services should be equally good everywhere.

The SPD wants humane asylum procedures that follow the rule of law and are completed faster. People who are already well integrated should be allowed to stay wherever possible. Those without a permanent right of residence should leave, provided this is feasible and humane.

The SPD wants fair asylum procedures. The procedures should be faster. Well-integrated people should be allowed to stay. People who may not stay should leave the country. This applies only if leaving is possible and humane.

The SPD wants Saxony to keep enough initial reception places for refugees and to coordinate their distribution among municipalities itself. Municipalities are to get incentives for taking people in and reliable funding for integration. Afghan local staff should also be admitted.

Saxony should have enough places for refugees. The state should manage how they are spread across towns. Towns should get money for integration. Saxony should also take in helpers from Afghanistan.

The SPD wants to reorganize the immigration offices and speed up their procedures so that international skilled workers can come to Saxony more easily. It considers more immigration necessary for Saxony to remain a strong industrial state.

Saxony lacks skilled workers. So the SPD wants more skilled workers from abroad. The immigration offices should work faster. They should make people feel welcome.