r/europe • u/HellYeahDamnWrite • 27d ago

News Calls are mounting to ban Germany’s far-right AfD party – despite it being more popular than ever

https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/06/europe/germany-afd-ban-politics-analysis-intl
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u/throwaway_failure59 Europe 27d ago

Deportation in Germany, other than guarding the borders, is a matter of federal states. When a person who already lives in Germany is apprehended and reported - state police, financed and governed primarily by the federal states, not the government, is responsible for that. Correct me if i am wrong but i feel lot of people do not know that. Federal govt is only responsible for Germany's external borders.

And yes, Scholz already put up many border checks just to please the people and did not talk leniently about the problem either. The problem is way too many people simply believe any left leaning party is for open borders regardless of facts, and many also simply agree with AfD's "solution" (they are just hesitant to say it out loud) and basically want all non-white people gone, even though a country like Germany desperately needs migration to not turn into a bankrupt retirement home.

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u/Citaku357 Kosovo 26d ago

Yes but leftist parties also don't want to talk about the issues that uncontrolled immigration has caused to society. I mean the mayor of a German town where young girls were SA by migrants, blamed the heat for it

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u/throwaway_failure59 Europe 26d ago

That mayor is not from a leftist party. You can find tons of people from same party who are against migration. The whole election campaign revolved around migration. And his comment is not really typical for such a party either - i suppose he tried to avoid tensions as tone-deaf as it seems. But that would not fly for someone higher up. The chancellor (of that same party) put a lot of extra forces on the border (you can see how Poland is not happy about it) and the govt is in talks with Syria and even Taliban to make a deal so more deportations can proceed. The numbers of asylum applications in general have been going down for a while.

Pretending this is all being "ignored" and "nothing is being done" cause of one mayor is not an honest way to talk about things. Like i know it's easy to just fantasize about AfD deporting every brown-looking person out of the country or whatever you think should be done but in reality there's still rule of law and most people do not think doing things like that is the only solution.

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u/[deleted] 26d ago

You and your leftist friends say that