Overview

• Höcke told the Thuringian state parliament the AfD wants to make Germany and Thuringia as unattractive as possible for what he called social migrants and to roll back the effects of perceived migration extremism where legally possible.
• He said the initiative, which he labeled a Remigrationsprogramm, should start in Thuringia before being pursued at the federal level.
• Reporting explains that far-right uses of the term remigration typically envision large numbers of people of foreign origin leaving the country, potentially under coercion.
• The Thuringian AfD remains classified by the state domestic intelligence service as firmly right-wing extremist.
• CDU and SPD lawmakers rejected Höcke’s claims of mass immigration, with the SPD noting that many who arrived in 2015 were war refugees and calling the response an act of humanity.