I am not. Their election program is misrepresenting their worldview to a degree. This is a legal strategy to avoid being too bannable by courts, nothing more. But look at quotes from influential people like Björn Höcke, Max Krah, Rene Aust, Lena Kotre or …
In their words:
“We have to proceed very peacefully and deliberately, adapt if necessary and butter up the opponent, but when we’re finally ready, we’ll put them all up against the wall. (…) Dig a pit, get everyone in and put slaked lime on top.”
Holger Arppe, Afd
By mass deportation of foreigners do you mean illegal immigrants?
Almost anyone who wants to claim asylum in Germany, needs to cross the border unlawfully, in their world view that makes people “illegal”. The term is used to discredit people whether they ultimately gain asylum or a protection status or not.
And guess what kind of materials court proceedings against Afd would be based on? Quotes and overheard conversations.
Ok so you do mean illegal immigrants.
I don’t. People aren’t “illegal”, unless you dabble in dehumanizing language.
Can someone apply for asylum in Germany without illegally entering the country?
Not currently.
A quick google shows that that is what the AfD are proposing - asylum seekers apply before entering the country.
It’s a fairly transparent proposal to remove the rights of asylum seekers for any kind of due process and remove any kind of oversight. Regular German judges, lawyers, civil-rights organizations will all be far away.
Some private operator will get rich off running an internment camp. An airline will get rich off the flights there.
“The refugee doesn’t care at which border he dies, whether it’s the Greek or German one.” - Günter Lenhardt, AfD
Germany isn’t an island so that shouldn’t be too difficult, and seems reasonable.
Germany is part of the EU, Germany is part of the Schengen agreement that is supposed to guarantee free movement within Europe, and Germany should help the EU as a whole succeed. The latter includes integrating refugees into the society.
large number of people who are not granted asylum just staying illegally, as the current situation in the USA shows.
How do people that just live and go to work hurt the system? (I.e. the vastest majority of undocumented and overstaying immigrants in the US.)
The US is currently doing a bang-up job deporting family father of 3 with no priors while not getting ahold of people who actually are criminal. (Iirc, 90% of the nameless, supposed “worst of the worst” gang members recently deported from the US had no priors.)
Normally, law enforcement capacity is scarce and normally, you should prioritize the cases that actually hurt society.
Incidentally, on a much smaller scale, so is Germany: Deporting the easy people, the people who show up to appointments and live at their registered place of residence.
They try to deport illegals who have lived there for 13+ years without even attempting to get asylum, and everyone blows up at them saying they should just leave them alone.
Possibly because these people likely are a net positive to society, have built a life, have friends, have integrated to a degree, just normal humaning.
If someone wants to rent my property I don’t let them stay in it while I process their application.
Ok so you basically want unregulated immigration and think that any attempts to stop it is nazi-adjacent, or just straight up nazi behaviour.
Nice strawman! Where did you buy it? I usually get mine at Aldi’s, but I’ve recently wondered whether I should switch up.
On a more serious note: Of course, immigration should be controlled. It should not be cut off though.
Way to argue in bad faith. People can be “illegal immigrants” which is what is being discussed.
Absolutely in good faith. There’s a reason why the phrasing “illegal immigrant” was coined: It’s a derogatory term to criminalize people who are usually fleeing their home countries. And often enough, it’s even shortened to “illegals”, making the intended dehumanization even more obvious.
Making a process for asylum seekers to get approval to enter the country before entering the country isn’t “removing rights of asylum seekers for due process” in any way.
Now that’s a bad-faith argument! Again, that process usually centers around “welcome centers” or whatever the euphemism du jour is, in other words: offshored internment camps. I suspect there may be reasons why Italy’s Albanian camp project and the UK’s Rwandan camp project were each struck down by courts multiple times. Notably, cost projection for both of these were rather interesting too. But gotta make someone rich in the process, right?
You mean the MS-13 gang member who has lived in the country illegally for 13 years without any attempt to become a legal citizen, who had twice been ordered to be deported back to his home country, where he now is?
Don’t know the specific case; is that the case with the photoshopped knuckle tattoo though?
In any case, I was referring the sort of average profile of a person that ends up getting deported. Statistically, the chances of the deported being violent criminals is becoming much lower, the higher the number of deportations. And that’s pretty logical: most people are not actually criminal, and if you’re just deporting to juice the stats, you’ll obviously deport the people you can arrest easily. Deportations are a shit tool if your goal is justice or safety, and they are extremely easy to abuse.
I know someone who was nearly deported and who does live in constant fear of deportation. They are not allowed to take a job, are completely dependent on the welfare, they feel absolutely miserable all the time, and they are certainly not a career criminal.
Like I said, your position is that all immigration should be legal.
Lol. “Like I said, your position is”, even to you that wording should be cue.
Cool story
So you didn’t get the point that was being made, or you have no way to refute it?
Your experience as a landlord seemed irrelevant to the topic.
It’s no wonder why you claim that a party who want to control immigration are Nazis and should be banned from becoming too popular.
Shall we recap this discussion between the two of us?
You called people who are in favor of disbanding the Afd party “nazis” and “fascists”.
I named a number of policy positions held by this party and its representatives that are in fact putting them fairly close to historic Nazism.
I asked whether these sorts of positions were positions that could reasonably be called democratic.
You claimed that your comment was being distorted by my listing of their policy. (Also that you were being called a nazi. Actually, where?)
When we were done with that, you picked one of the policy items and tried to disect it.
We’ve been conversing about the finer legal details of pointlessly hurting and, in effect, often killing, people since.
Now you feel you’ve reduced ad absurdo enough and built yourself a few strawmen.
You claim that I am a nazi (capital N?).
I’d still love to know, what you think of the positions that I wrote up above. Just take them at face value. Are those positions of a normal democratic party that should remain allowed?
I am copying what I wrote above again:
the people who want everyone with the wrong kind of mustache to be deported, who want citizenships revoked, who want to “remove the outmoded political party system”, who are already obstructing the judicial system in Thuringia, who want to defund public media because it’s “too woke”, who want to gut universities because they are “too woke”, who want to fuck up the environment because - guess what - also “woke”, and who want to overthrow the constitutional order
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I am not. Their election program is misrepresenting their worldview to a degree. This is a legal strategy to avoid being too bannable by courts, nothing more. But look at quotes from influential people like Björn Höcke, Max Krah, Rene Aust, Lena Kotre or …
In their words:
“We have to proceed very peacefully and deliberately, adapt if necessary and butter up the opponent, but when we’re finally ready, we’ll put them all up against the wall. (…) Dig a pit, get everyone in and put slaked lime on top.”
Almost anyone who wants to claim asylum in Germany, needs to cross the border unlawfully, in their world view that makes people “illegal”. The term is used to discredit people whether they ultimately gain asylum or a protection status or not.
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Their policy documents are half-truths that point in a direction, their speeches in front of followers are often more to the point.
And these quote collections are really all over the German-language interwebs, e.g. https://www.watson.ch/international/rechtsextremismus/291420759-rechtsextremismus-in-der-afd-diese-21-zitate-sprechen-fuer-sich
And guess what kind of materials court proceedings against Afd would be based on? Quotes and overheard conversations.
I don’t. People aren’t “illegal”, unless you dabble in dehumanizing language.
Not currently.
It’s a fairly transparent proposal to remove the rights of asylum seekers for any kind of due process and remove any kind of oversight. Regular German judges, lawyers, civil-rights organizations will all be far away.
Some private operator will get rich off running an internment camp. An airline will get rich off the flights there.
Germany is part of the EU, Germany is part of the Schengen agreement that is supposed to guarantee free movement within Europe, and Germany should help the EU as a whole succeed. The latter includes integrating refugees into the society.
How do people that just live and go to work hurt the system? (I.e. the vastest majority of undocumented and overstaying immigrants in the US.)
The US is currently doing a bang-up job deporting family father of 3 with no priors while not getting ahold of people who actually are criminal. (Iirc, 90% of the nameless, supposed “worst of the worst” gang members recently deported from the US had no priors.)
Normally, law enforcement capacity is scarce and normally, you should prioritize the cases that actually hurt society.
Incidentally, on a much smaller scale, so is Germany: Deporting the easy people, the people who show up to appointments and live at their registered place of residence.
Possibly because these people likely are a net positive to society, have built a life, have friends, have integrated to a degree, just normal humaning.
Cool story.
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Nice strawman! Where did you buy it? I usually get mine at Aldi’s, but I’ve recently wondered whether I should switch up.
On a more serious note: Of course, immigration should be controlled. It should not be cut off though.
Absolutely in good faith. There’s a reason why the phrasing “illegal immigrant” was coined: It’s a derogatory term to criminalize people who are usually fleeing their home countries. And often enough, it’s even shortened to “illegals”, making the intended dehumanization even more obvious.
Now that’s a bad-faith argument! Again, that process usually centers around “welcome centers” or whatever the euphemism du jour is, in other words: offshored internment camps. I suspect there may be reasons why Italy’s Albanian camp project and the UK’s Rwandan camp project were each struck down by courts multiple times. Notably, cost projection for both of these were rather interesting too. But gotta make someone rich in the process, right?
Don’t know the specific case; is that the case with the photoshopped knuckle tattoo though?
In any case, I was referring the sort of average profile of a person that ends up getting deported. Statistically, the chances of the deported being violent criminals is becoming much lower, the higher the number of deportations. And that’s pretty logical: most people are not actually criminal, and if you’re just deporting to juice the stats, you’ll obviously deport the people you can arrest easily. Deportations are a shit tool if your goal is justice or safety, and they are extremely easy to abuse.
I know someone who was nearly deported and who does live in constant fear of deportation. They are not allowed to take a job, are completely dependent on the welfare, they feel absolutely miserable all the time, and they are certainly not a career criminal.
Lol. “Like I said, your position is”, even to you that wording should be cue.
Your experience as a landlord seemed irrelevant to the topic.
Shall we recap this discussion between the two of us?
I’d still love to know, what you think of the positions that I wrote up above. Just take them at face value. Are those positions of a normal democratic party that should remain allowed?
I am copying what I wrote above again:
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I’ve actually bolded the one thing I still would like to see you answer in my above comment. Stop beating around the bush.
Was in the process of editing answers/questions down the bottom of my post.
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