Austria’s conservative-led government said on Friday it is offering Syrian refugees a “return bonus” of 1,000 euros ($1,050) to move back to their home country after the fall of Bashar al-Assad.
Conservative Chancellor Karl Nehammer reacted quickly to Assad’s overthrow on Sunday, saying the same day that the security situation in Syria should be reassessed so as to allow deportations of Syrian refugees.
Would anyone really feel safe returning to Syria today? There is still fighting going on, and now Israel is annexing the parts that connect to Israel.
The guy ruling Syria now was literally in al-Qaeda. You should be insane to return to Syria now.
Can we at least wait until the smoke settles? I don’t feel confident sending people back right now.
It’ll net them votes, then once the situation destabilizes and next wave of refugees come, they’ll get more votes because people are dumb. It’s a win win at the potential cost of Syrian lives. To the right-wingers, that’s not a cost.
Sadly I’m not a right winger and I’d prefer them to be safe. The refugees. The AfD can go to any war zone of their choice.
I feel so bad for syrian refugees. They are scared they will be send back. Many have lived here in europe now for like a decade. This is their home now too. Imagine having to leave your friends, your family, your job, your home AGAIN to go to a place you haven’t been to in so long. Your kids leaving their school and friends behind. Maybe a girlfriend/boyfriend they got. Going to a place they haven’t been since being a baby or maybe at all. Where everything is different and everyone speaks a different language.
It’s so fucking cruel. They already have homes here. Leave them alone and let them go back only if they themselves want to.
And then people will yell “but the country is full!” While their white trash makes 5 babies that grow up to be assholes.
they’ll yell that the country is full as industries are begging for more workers and rural towns are dying out
They want to get ahead of the FPÖ, and I can understand them.
