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Austria moves to block asylum-seekers with tough new rules |
2016-03-31 |
[AlAhram] Austria on Wednesday moved to further tighten As of mid-May, the government will only accept cases of refugees facing threats to their safety in a neighbouring transit country or whose relatives are already in Austria. "We will not consider any asylum requests unless we have to because of certain criteria... like under the (European) Convention on Human Rights," Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner told a presser in Vienna. She said the decision was in accordance with European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... law which allowed member states to take national measures in emergency situations. Austria -- which last year received one of the highest asylum claims per capita in the EU -- was no longer "obliged" to accept all requests because the migrant crisis posed "a threat to public order and national security", Mikl-Leitner said. The new rules will also force Illegal The government also reaffirmed its intention to step up controls at existing checkpoints along its southern frontiers, including at the Brenner Pass, a key European transit route on the Italian border. Some 14,000 people have already applied for asylum in Austria so far this year, according to the interior ministry -- reaching nearly half of the annual quota of 37,500 claims imposed by the government in January. But the flow has slowed to a trickle since Austria and Balkan countries along the main migrant trail leading up from Greece shut their borders at the end of February. |
Posted by:trailing wife |
#1 How about outsourcing the Border Patrol to Austria out from under Homeland Security? |
Posted by: Procopius2k 2016-03-31 11:05 |