Germany’s Social Democrats often sound the alarm about the rising far right. It would help if their own elected officials didn’t constantly spread misinformation about migrants stealing from the welfare system.

Last year saw a wave of protests in Germany in reaction to calls for the expulsion of people with migrant backgrounds. The demonstrations expressed justified moral outrage against a rising far right. Yet other developments in government perhaps also ought to have drawn more scrutiny.

Already under the last coalition government under Social Democratic (SPD) chancellor Olaf Scholz, ousted in the February 2025 federal elections, there was a creeping normalization of anti-immigrant policies, including a campaign to deport more asylum seekers. This is today taken further, under Christi

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