2023-12-17 12:06:20
Eisenstadt (OTS) – ÖVP Interior Minister Karner’s jubilant reports and attempts to gloss over the numbers of asylum applications in November have no basis whatsoever and are met with a lot of criticism, especially in Burgenland, because following a record year in 2022 with 112,000 asylum applications, Austria is once once more at the top in continental Europe in terms of per capita -The burden on asylum applications is concerned. In Burgenland alone, over 27,000 people were caught this year and around 270 smugglers were arrested. We have recently learned that there are close connections between smuggling crime and Islamist terrorism. “The Interior Minister should concentrate on solving these problems instead of distracting from them with insubstantial announcements and press conferences,” criticizes SPÖ club chairman Roland Fürst.
ÖVP Interior Minister Karner responsible for 170,000 asylum applications
“As of November, 56,178 asylum applications were filed in Austria. This puts Austria back at the top in continental Europe with a per capita burden of 624 asylum applications per 100,000 inhabitants. Interior Minister Karner is primarily responsible for this, his attempts to sugarcoat it are completely inappropriate. Even Germany with a Pro The headcount of 391 asylum applications per 100,000 inhabitants is well behind Austria, criticizes Fürst. The Interior Minister also does not inform the population correctly and uses a strange interpretation of the numbers. The Interior Ministry believes that 28,700 people evaded the procedure by November and left the country “Of course, a small proportion of these people remain in Austria as submariners, but the Interior Minister also persistently ignores the 11,200 returns of asylum seekers from Germany to Salzburg alone, as well as the fact that over 4,000 more people are in basic care than in 2022 “, explains Prince. Interior Minister Karner has been responsible for almost 170,000 asylum applications since he took office, something no other interior minister in Europe has “combined”. “The asylum brake must therefore be placed in the category of fairy tales such as the fairy tale of ex-Chancellor Kurz’s closure of the Balkan route. Due to the high number of asylum applications, Austria also became an international hot spot when it comes to smuggling crime. In Burgenland alone, there were over 100 breakthroughs by smugglers and it’s only a matter of time before something happens once more. The Interior Minister should rather address these urgent problems,” says Fürst.
Interior Minister Karner adorns himself with foreign feathers
The decline in asylum applications in November compared to the record year of 2022 is not due to the federal government’s policy, which has completely failed here to date, but to other circumstances: at the end of October, three migrants were shot at the Serbian border and elections are taking place in Serbia today For this reason, the Serbian government has closed the asylum camps and controlled the borders more strictly. “Here the Interior Minister is adorning himself with someone else’s feathers. We know that the asylum camps in Serbia are full to bursting and it is only a matter of time before people head back to Austria. The worrying thing is that the federal government and especially the Interior Minister “Karner has not presented any of his own proposed solutions to curb asylum applications and to curb the escalating smuggling crime with over 1,200 arrests since 2022. Instead of finally taking this issue seriously, the ÖVP is distracting with populist headlines such as compulsory work for asylum seekers,” concluded Fürst.
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