Latest immigration news from the AfD in Germany

This current poster reads "We warned about this: Refugee Crisis 2.0!  EU and Merkel must act immediately!  Support the Greeks!  Consequences for Turkey!"

FROM THE ALTERNATIVE FÜR DEUTSCHLAND WEBPAGE, where public statements by party leaders are regularly presented because the established media in Germany ignores the AfD politicians unless they can be characterized in an anti-democratic fashion. The same situation that sends Donald Trump to Twitter! So I thought I'd bring these few to you that I found on their site today. -Carolyn

On March 5th, Federal Board Member Beatrix von Storch said: "Merkel's refugee deal with the Bosporus blackmailer has failed."
She says Erdogan understands only a politics of strength.

After the Turkish president Erdoğan announced to open the borders, tens of thousands of Syrians are already on their way to Europe - and most of them want to go to Germany as usual. Near the Turkish city of Edirne, hundreds of migrants have tried to storm the border by force. The Greek police were forced to use tear gas and water cannons to protect their border. Von Storch explained:

"The Greeks are today protecting justice against violence, freedom against tyranny and Europe against Erdogan at the border with Turkey. The small Christian country on the edge of the EU is being attacked by an unscrupulous Islamist. Our solidarity belongs to the Greek nation. Erdogan openly directs migration flows to the Greek border so that the majority of the men, mostly young men, storm that border. Erdogan wants to destabilise Greece and Europe. Erdogan is to blame for the fact that millions of people are on the march, endangering their lives and plunging Europe into chaos.
Erdogan's policy is an act of aggression that requires a clear response. We have the means to do so:
1) The suspension of the customs agreement with Turkey,
2) Penalty tariffs, as 50 percent of Turkish exports go to the EU. Penalty duties would hit Erdogan hard,
3) Stopping all military and armament supplies and
4) essentially stop issuing visas for travel from Turkey to the EU.

The German government's attitude of submission is pathetic. The only language this dictator understands is the policy of strength. And that means sanctions instead of subsidies."

Honorary chairman Alexander Gauland said on March 5th that "Only the AfD in the Bundestag is the guarantee that there will be no repetition of 2015."

Gauland sees the German government's reluctance to accept new 'refugees' as a credit to the AfD parliamentary group: 

"If it were up to the Greens, thousands of refugees from the Greek-Turkish border would already be on their way to Germany today. There are also more and more voices from other parties demanding a generous reception.
There is a simple explanation for the fact that this has not yet happened despite growing public pressure from the media and the churches, for example: the AfD parliamentary group in the German Bundestag is the guarantee that there will be no repeat of the situation of 2015.
For we must not deceive ourselves: The attitude that led to the uncontrolled entry of more than one million foreigners into Germany from 2015 onwards is still widespread among the old parties. Fear of the reaction of the voters alone has so far prevented political leaders, and above all the CDU, from once again bringing hundreds of thousands of refugees to Germany, bypassing legal regulations and international agreements.

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On March 5 Federal Executive Board member Joachim Paul said "Speaking German must be a prerequisite for attending primary school."

Paul, spokesman on education policy of the AfD-Landtagsfraktion Rheinland-Pfalz, warns that more and more children without sufficient German language skills are being integrated into primary schools. If the education ministers do not take effective countermeasures, this school enrollment practice will not only lead to a complete overtaxing of the children affected, but also to a burden for those children who have an age-appropriate knowledge of German:

"It is obviously thanks to the work of the AfD opposition that more and more schools are now taking heart and bringing the grievances in everyday school life to the public and putting them up for discussion. After Mülheim-Kärlich, Betzdorf and others, the primary school in Cochem is now taking the floor. Its threat report reflects the consequences of a completely unplanned and irresponsible school and education policy.

Among the grievances such as swimming lessons and inclusion, one serious problem stands out in particular: the attempted schooling of children who have no knowledge of German. Such a practice leaves only losers behind. Immigrant children, who have to perceive everyday school life as a series of disappointments, and German children, who are supposed to be taught the material appropriate to their age under difficult conditions.

We therefore renew our demand that children should only be included in regular lessons if they have sufficient knowledge of German. The overload and hazard reports are certainly no longer individual cases. Rather, they document how far a left-wing educational policy has distanced itself from local realities," says Paul.

With the primary school in Cochem, another school in Rhineland-Palatinate submitted a risk report to the ADD. This risk report was also submitted to the Education Committee in the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament, of which Joachim Paul is a member. In this notification, one can read about the knowledge of German:

"The children come to school with completely different or no previous knowledge and according to the VV (administrative regulation) must be classified according to age."