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AfD Demands Deportation of 1M Migrants, Sparking Clash With Merz
(MENAFN) Germany's right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) renewed calls Wednesday for the deportation of more than one million rejected asylum seekers, intensifying its rhetoric just days after a landslide regional election win.
During a fiery exchange in the German parliament, AfD co-leader Alice Weidel argued that voters had endorsed a hardline crackdown on mass immigration by handing her party a decisive victory in Sunday's election in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt.
"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 further claimed that mass migration has eroded public safety and fueled crime, pointing to sexual and violent offenses, knife attacks and disorder in public spaces. She alleged that certain foreign groups harbor hostility toward Christians, Germans and Germany itself, and asserted that roughly three-quarters of recipients of Germany's basic income support for jobseekers were foreigners or had a migrant background.
Chancellor Friedrich Merz, responding after Weidel, dismissed her remarks as out of touch with reality and highlighted migrants' contributions to the German economy. He noted that millions of people with migrant backgrounds work in skilled trades, where 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."
He accused the AfD 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.
Merz said his Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the ruling coalition draw a clear line between migrants who work, contribute and have integrated into German society, and those without legal residence status who have no right to remain and should be sent back. He defended the government's approach of tightening controls on irregular migration while deporting those whose asylum claims have been denied.
During a fiery exchange in the German parliament, AfD co-leader Alice Weidel argued that voters had endorsed a hardline crackdown on mass immigration by handing her party a decisive victory in Sunday's election in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt.
"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 further claimed that mass migration has eroded public safety and fueled crime, pointing to sexual and violent offenses, knife attacks and disorder in public spaces. She alleged that certain foreign groups harbor hostility toward Christians, Germans and Germany itself, and asserted that roughly three-quarters of recipients of Germany's basic income support for jobseekers were foreigners or had a migrant background.
Chancellor Friedrich Merz, responding after Weidel, dismissed her remarks as out of touch with reality and highlighted migrants' contributions to the German economy. He noted that millions of people with migrant backgrounds work in skilled trades, where 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."
He accused the AfD 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.
Merz said his Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the ruling coalition draw a clear line between migrants who work, contribute and have integrated into German society, and those without legal residence status who have no right to remain and should be sent back. He defended the government's approach of tightening controls on irregular migration while deporting those whose asylum claims have been denied.
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