Austria: 90% Muslim refugees end up on welfare

When they arrive

You can call them asylum seekers or refugees--same old, same old, but in Austria, the reality is that nine out of ten of them wind up on welfare and the Austrian taxpayers foot the bill.

Austrian Interior Minister Wolfgang Sobotka is doing all he can to resist the EU's efforts to send more asylum seekers to Austria by increasing the quota. He claims that 90 percent of them end up on welfare and strain the system.

Sobotka says that "Austria has borne the main load from 2014 to 2017," and "Our system is simply overwhelmed."

It needs to be emphasized that no Arab Gulf countries (Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman and the UAE)  has taken in any Syrian refugees, for example. 

And a more recent report (Jan. 2016) says Arab monarchies turned down refugees fearing security threat. 

"If you look at the asylum seekers, you can see that 90 percent are migrating to the needs-oriented minimum security system," Sobotka said, adding that border security is of great importance. "We had up to 15,000 refugees per day on some days, today it is an average of 30."

"It is important to keep the pressure on those who bring migrants illegally to Europe via the Mediterranean and in other ways," he added and said that if the EU fails to keep up the pressure, it will be a sign for human smugglers who will double their efforts to smuggle more people into Europe.

The EU's migrant distribution plan is viewed as unfair in many EU countries and some such as Hungary and Poland have rejected the plan altogether. 

Hungary and Slovakia appealed to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) saying that the distribution agreement was invalid because it didn't have unanimous consent from member states and their citizens.

But the ECJ rejected the appeal and membership to the EU is looking less and less representative of a democratic or republic-style union.

When they are in the majority

Heinz-Christian Strache, chairman of the anti-mass migration Freedom Party (FPÖ), said the figures "show how deeply we are in a crisis of fairness," and urged the Austrian public to vote out the current Austrian People's Party-Social Democrat coalition "before the Austrian population changes" [to a Muslim-dominating society]. 


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