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AfD Renews Push to Deport 1M Rejected Asylum Seekers
(MENAFN) Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) escalated its anti-immigration platform on Wednesday, demanding the removal of more than one million refugees whose asylum bids have already been turned down — a fresh salvo delivered just days after the party's commanding win in a regional vote.
The demand surfaced during a tense session of the German parliament, where AfD co-leader Alice Weidel argued that the party's landslide victory in Sunday's Saxony-Anhalt state election reflected a public mandate for sweeping immigration restrictions.
"You declare the migration crisis over. Yet every year hundreds of thousands of migrants enter the country through the asylum back door, most from Muslim tribal cultures," she said.
"And in Germany more than one million refugees live whose asylum applications have been rejected more than once," she continued. "What are these people still doing in this country? They belong deported."
Weidel went further, linking mass migration to a decline in public safety and pointing to rising sexual assaults, violent crime, knife attacks and general disorder. She also claimed certain foreign communities harbor animosity toward Christians and Germans broadly, and asserted that roughly three-quarters of recipients of Germany's basic jobseekers' benefit were foreign nationals or had migrant roots.
Chancellor Friedrich Merz took the floor after Weidel and dismissed her characterization as disconnected from facts, instead highlighting migrants' economic footprint. He noted that millions of workers with migrant backgrounds are employed across Germany's skilled trades, where roughly one in six employees holds a foreign passport.
"If those migrants who work in Germany have to leave the country because of your 'remigration' plans, then the skilled-trades sector in Germany can no longer function," Merz said. "Then not a single care home will work anymore, then not a single hospital in Germany will work anymore, then not a single restaurant will be able to run in Germany."
Merz went on to accuse the party of spreading fear and fracturing German society. "What you are propagating here, namely remigration, is nothing other than ethnic cleansing by skin color and origin — nothing else," he said.
He said his Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its coalition partners draw a clear line between migrants who are employed, contribute to society and have integrated into German life, and those without legal residency who have no right to remain — the latter group, he said, should be sent back. Merz reaffirmed the government's commitment to tightening controls on irregular migration while enforcing the removal of applicants whose asylum claims have failed.
The demand surfaced during a tense session of the German parliament, where AfD co-leader Alice Weidel argued that the party's landslide victory in Sunday's Saxony-Anhalt state election reflected a public mandate for sweeping immigration restrictions.
"You declare the migration crisis over. Yet every year hundreds of thousands of migrants enter the country through the asylum back door, most from Muslim tribal cultures," she said.
"And in Germany more than one million refugees live whose asylum applications have been rejected more than once," she continued. "What are these people still doing in this country? They belong deported."
Weidel went further, linking mass migration to a decline in public safety and pointing to rising sexual assaults, violent crime, knife attacks and general disorder. She also claimed certain foreign communities harbor animosity toward Christians and Germans broadly, and asserted that roughly three-quarters of recipients of Germany's basic jobseekers' benefit were foreign nationals or had migrant roots.
Chancellor Friedrich Merz took the floor after Weidel and dismissed her characterization as disconnected from facts, instead highlighting migrants' economic footprint. He noted that millions of workers with migrant backgrounds are employed across Germany's skilled trades, where roughly one in six employees holds a foreign passport.
"If those migrants who work in Germany have to leave the country because of your 'remigration' plans, then the skilled-trades sector in Germany can no longer function," Merz said. "Then not a single care home will work anymore, then not a single hospital in Germany will work anymore, then not a single restaurant will be able to run in Germany."
Merz went on to accuse the party of spreading fear and fracturing German society. "What you are propagating here, namely remigration, is nothing other than ethnic cleansing by skin color and origin — nothing else," he said.
He said his Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its coalition partners draw a clear line between migrants who are employed, contribute to society and have integrated into German life, and those without legal residency who have no right to remain — the latter group, he said, should be sent back. Merz reaffirmed the government's commitment to tightening controls on irregular migration while enforcing the removal of applicants whose asylum claims have failed.
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