Austria( Bureau report) Today, the SPÖ has demanded consistent deportations of criminal asylum seekers – also to Afghanistan and Syria, provided the security situation on site allows this. “Zero tolerance” is needed here, emphasized security spokesman Reinhold Einwallner and defense spokesman Robert Laimer at a joint press conference on the sidelines of the plenary.

“If someone has been legally convicted, he has to be deported,” said Einwallner. The construction of preventive detention is not necessary for this, the existing legal situation is sufficient, argued the red security spokesman who made the federal government responsible. Although they are constantly making announcements, they do not take any action. “Kurz (Federal Chancellor Sebastian, note) and Nehammer (Interior Minister Karl, note) have been responsible for this issue for years.” How amateurish these governments are can be seen from the fact that Nehammer cannot even tell us how many delinquents Asylum seekers are in the country at all. “Admittedly, the SPÖ only recently passed a resolution against deportations in crisis regions at the party congress and explicitly named Afghanistan in it. Einwallner restricted this to the effect that the security situation on site had to be considered depending on the case.
