With 56,149 applications for protection through August, we are on our way to a new record. There have never been so many negative decisions – but what happens to these people?
In the first eight months of this year, people said asylum an average of 243 times a day! Security experts are sounding the alarm over the official numbers passed to the “Krone”. With 56,149 applications through August – not counting Ukrainian war refugees – the increase compared to the previous year is already 195 percent!
As has been reported several times, a higher value is expected by the end of the year than in the year of the refugee crisis in 2015. It is the great comeback of the inhumane smuggling trade after a two-year corona break.
Federal districts, such as the country’s largest shelter in Traiskirchen (Lower Austria), are now hopelessly overcrowded, as impressively documented by photos of a seemingly endless food distribution queue. The entire asylum system has reached the limit of resilience.
At the same time, there has been a record this year of approximately 17,000 negative decisions and approximately 14,500 – for “removed from the procedure” – dismissals. With a total of 31,500, more than half of the applications, almost 57 percent, are affected. Because more and more seizures concern economic refugees from India (top 1), Pakistan or popular red-white-red holiday countries such as Morocco and Tunisia. And these people actually have no chance of asylum. That is why the Ministry of the Interior is also focusing on speed to distinguish between people who need protection and people who are unlikely to stay. Incidentally, in the first instance almost 70 percent of the procedures are decided within 72 hours, the average duration is currently 25 days.
There’s just no trace of 5,000 escape orphans
But what happens to those migrants who actually have to leave Austria? The “Krone” went looking for clues and did the fact check. Extreme: cases involving unaccompanied minors. In the first half of the year, some 5,000 orphans – the equivalent of more than 200 school classes – simply disappeared. There is no trace of 96 percent of the children who have applied for protection from us.
In addition to 7,000 evictions – 60 percent forced evictions, the rest voluntary returnees – the majority of rejected asylum seekers or those who do not offer protection themselves. Many continue to travel to relatives who have already arrived in Germany, Italy or Scandinavian countries. A smaller part lives on with us as illegal submarines. Interior Minister Gerhard Karner (ÖVP): “We continue to control the border, as a rule of law we want to know who is coming to us. But travelers should not be stopped.”
Source: Krone
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