📋 Tender Overview
The motion of his parliamentary group has already been in parliament since 2022, FPÖ representative Hannes Amesbauer pointed out in the plenary. But Chancellor Nehammer first needs an assassination attempt, like the one in Mannheim, to demand deportations to Afghanistan and Syria himself. However, this is a "pure slogan-knocking" by Nehammer, whereas the Freedom Party would stand for a "credible and restrictive asylum policy". Since the beginning of the legislative period, 240,000 illegal immigrants have come to Austria, Amesbauer reported. In the meantime, 35% of primary school children are Muslims. One does not have to be "a prophet" to recognize that "mass immigration" leads to Islamization and subsequently to an increased threat of terrorism, Amesbauer concluded. This danger can only be averted with an asylum ban and "mass deportations".
Of course, the FPÖ is also "not happy" with the Taliban regime, according to Amesbauer. But in order to be able to deport to Afghanistan, one must talk to the rulers there and let "a bit of pragmatism" prevail. Deportations to Syria would also be possible in the safe Damascus area, according to Amesbauer. Even "refugee" Syrians would spend their holidays there. Amesbauer's parliamentary colleague Werner Herbert emphasized that in addition to the civilian population, the police are the main victims of the federal government's asylum policy. Attacks on law enforcement officers are predominantly perpetrated by immigrants.
In recent years, Austria has been the European "pacemaker" for a stricter asylum policy, without which there would be no asylum and migration pact, Ernst Gödl (ÖVP) countered Amesbauer. This is also seen internationally as such, he said, referring to German media reports. For the ÖVP it is clear: If a person entitled to asylum commits a crime, he has forfeited his right to protection, Gödl explained. The focus is also "naturally" on those concerned in the deportations. The "asylum brake" of the federal government is working, Gödl was convinced. While around 12,300 illegal border crossings were registered at the Burgenland border from January to May 2022, there were only 260 in the same period this year. "The FPÖ talks, we act," said Gödl.
For the SPÖ, too, it is "self-evident" that criminals have forfeited their intellectual property rights, Christian Oxonitsch (SPÖ) noted. However, the solution is far more complicated than the FPÖ imagines in its motion, which consists of only one sentence. There is a rule of law, international treaties and human rights. Oxonitsch detected a "shift in discourse" in the FPÖ, as these terms no longer played a role for them.
Green MP Georg Bürstmayr saw it as an "age-old reflex in human history" to want to "banish" foreign criminals as far away as possible. However, this is no longer possible in today's world, as deportees to Afghanistan could also be back in Europe in a few months. In addition, deportations also require corresponding agreements, which are "as a rule" associated with monetary payments, Bürstmayr explained. Concluding a deportation agreement with Afghanistan under the Taliban regime would therefore amount to terrorist financing. In addition, it is not clear whether, for example, Islamists who have committed an attack in Europe will receive a criminal trial in Afghanistan at all or whether they will rather be greeted "with a ceremony," Bürstmayr pointed out.
The NEOS are concerned with security and compliance with the principles of the rule of law, explained their deputy Stephanie Krisper. Those who need protection are allowed to stay. Those who do not need one must leave the country and the countries of origin have to take them back. All interior ministers in recent years have failed to persuade these countries to take them back, Krisper said. If all EU member states were to join forces in this regard, they would have "greater leverage", which would also reduce irregular migration. Krisper described concluding an agreement to this effect with the Taliban as an "incomprehensible proposal". But the FPÖ has no pain limit anyway as far as cooperation with "despotic regimes" is concerned – "keyword Russia".
