# AfD on the US Election, Iran War and Deportations in Germany - Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2120162323138527578 - Source account: [@Alice_Weidel](https://x.com/Alice_Weidel) - Source language: German - Target language: English - Duration: 3:49 - Published: 2026-11-10 - Machine translated. Check the original before quoting. - Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XwNyFFxqMz54/en/afd-on-the-us-election-iran-war-and-deportations-in-germany - Original-language version: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XwNyFFxqMz54/de/afd-position-zu-us-wahl-iran-krieg-und-abschiebungen-in-deutschland.md ## Transcript [0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XwNyFFxqMz54/en/afd-on-the-us-election-iran-war-and-deportations-in-germany) Well, I've commented several times on the outcome in the U.S. Um, the reasons are pretty clear, as both President Trump and Vice President Vance have admitted. [0:14](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XwNyFFxqMz54/en/afd-on-the-us-election-iran-war-and-deportations-in-germany?t=14) It's primarily the cost of living and the war in Iran they started. [0:20](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XwNyFFxqMz54/en/afd-on-the-us-election-iran-war-and-deportations-in-germany?t=20) The Republicans went into the election campaign with a promise not to start any wars. [0:26](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XwNyFFxqMz54/en/afd-on-the-us-election-iran-war-and-deportations-in-germany?t=26) And by the time the war in Iran began, with the intervention in Iran, they had broken that campaign promise. [0:34](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XwNyFFxqMz54/en/afd-on-the-us-election-iran-war-and-deportations-in-germany?t=34) It came back to bite them incredibly hard. [0:37](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XwNyFFxqMz54/en/afd-on-the-us-election-iran-war-and-deportations-in-germany?t=37) And the MAGA movement itself is arguing internally about whether there was too much, too much, as I put it, ICE, or too little. [0:52](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XwNyFFxqMz54/en/afd-on-the-us-election-iran-war-and-deportations-in-germany?t=52) Um, it's actually not such a difficult question, Um, rather, it’s quite clear: The Republicans have lost voters, after all. [1:01](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XwNyFFxqMz54/en/afd-on-the-us-election-iran-war-and-deportations-in-germany?t=61) So one has to ask the question: Why did they lose voters? [1:04](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XwNyFFxqMz54/en/afd-on-the-us-election-iran-war-and-deportations-in-germany?t=64) They certainly didn’t lose them because of an overly restrictive immigration policy. [1:10](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XwNyFFxqMz54/en/afd-on-the-us-election-iran-war-and-deportations-in-germany?t=70) The opposite was the case, which he had previously been criticized for, for not being strict enough. [1:17](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XwNyFFxqMz54/en/afd-on-the-us-election-iran-war-and-deportations-in-germany?t=77) And please don’t misunderstand me. I’m not defending ICE’s actions in any way. [1:25](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XwNyFFxqMz54/en/afd-on-the-us-election-iran-war-and-deportations-in-germany?t=85) Americans have to judge that for themselves. [1:28](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XwNyFFxqMz54/en/afd-on-the-us-election-iran-war-and-deportations-in-germany?t=88) I don’t think that should be our approach in Germany, to adopt that kind of, let’s say, that kind of attitude. [1:39](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XwNyFFxqMz54/en/afd-on-the-us-election-iran-war-and-deportations-in-germany?t=99) Um, we would prefer a different approach, Which I leave to the federal authorities, um, um, t- entrust to, because we're politicians, we're not authorities. [1:49](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XwNyFFxqMz54/en/afd-on-the-us-election-iran-war-and-deportations-in-germany?t=109) I don't want to become the deportation police either, they have to handle that themselves. [1:53](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XwNyFFxqMz54/en/afd-on-the-us-election-iran-war-and-deportations-in-germany?t=113) But here in Germany, we have the opposite extreme. [1:56](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XwNyFFxqMz54/en/afd-on-the-us-election-iran-war-and-deportations-in-germany?t=116) We have the extreme case that, I think, two days ago, a Lebanese man, um, was deported on a scheduled flight with hun— with almost two hundred seats. [2:05](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XwNyFFxqMz54/en/afd-on-the-us-election-iran-war-and-deportations-in-germany?t=125) So here, too, our taxpayers' money is being wasted and, um, overall the Federal Republic of Germany is obviously not capable of actually deporting the many people required to leave. [2:15](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XwNyFFxqMz54/en/afd-on-the-us-election-iran-war-and-deportations-in-germany?t=135) And that is mandated by law and statute. [2:18](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XwNyFFxqMz54/en/afd-on-the-us-election-iran-war-and-deportations-in-germany?t=138) It is mandated by law here. And what we, as the AfD, are calling for is remigration. [2:25](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XwNyFFxqMz54/en/afd-on-the-us-election-iran-war-and-deportations-in-germany?t=145) And for us, remigration means the consistent enforcement of law and order. [2:31](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XwNyFFxqMz54/en/afd-on-the-us-election-iran-war-and-deportations-in-germany?t=151) And that means deporting the people who are here illegally, um, whose protection status has expired, because the reason for their flight no longer exists, um, criminals, extremists, um, and these are simply people who don't belong here. [2:50](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XwNyFFxqMz54/en/afd-on-the-us-election-iran-war-and-deportations-in-germany?t=170) And, um, this is, incidentally, covered by the law, which is what we, as the AfD, demand. [2:57](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XwNyFFxqMz54/en/afd-on-the-us-election-iran-war-and-deportations-in-germany?t=177) Nothing more and nothing less. Here and now, over the last ten years, it simply hasn't been done because the political will is obviously lacking. [3:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XwNyFFxqMz54/en/afd-on-the-us-election-iran-war-and-deportations-in-germany?t=187) And that's why we have stepped up to implement law and order, because we have the political will, to restore law and order in our country. [3:17](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XwNyFFxqMz54/en/afd-on-the-us-election-iran-war-and-deportations-in-germany?t=197) Because you can't unleash illegal immigrants on the native population. [3:22](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XwNyFFxqMz54/en/afd-on-the-us-election-iran-war-and-deportations-in-germany?t=202) You can see that in the crime statistics and we— and I personally— consider it and I personally consider it irresponsible to do that, to do something like that. [3:28](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XwNyFFxqMz54/en/afd-on-the-us-election-iran-war-and-deportations-in-germany?t=208) And accordingly, these people do not belong in our country and they must be deported rigorously and consistently, in accordance with the law.