In order to prevent a renewed “factual loss of control” at the domestic borders, there should be “zero illegal migration” and refugees should be turned away directly at the border.
Legally, so Haimbuchner and the blue Linz Security Councilor Michael Raml agreed in the press conference, this would not violate Section 3 of the Human Rights Convention. Because Austria is surrounded by safe third countries to which migrants can be turned back. Asylum centers should be established in the Middle East in the long term. The FPÖ politicians agreed that the “most important key” to ensure that third countries meet their obligations is the threat of economic sanctions.
To “safeguard national security” and “peace and order”, migrants who have committed criminal offenses and cannot be deported are to be detained in detention centers. This applies to those who have been legally convicted of either one with ten years imprisonment, twice with one with five years imprisonment or four times with one year threatened crime and who are legally banned from staying in Austria, Haimbuchner explained the blue model. A precautionary detention, as brought into play by the ÖVP, is “legally not tenable” for Haimbuchner. He sees the restriction of the civil liberties as problematic. You don’t need “a lot of imagination, which ideas the state could come up with”, he believed. Specifically, he named uncomfortable citizens such as participants in Corona rallies.
Raml sees the blue measures against a new wave of refugees as an “act of the Austrians’ right to self-help” after the EU fails to secure the external borders. Haimbuchner justified his party’s no to accepting refugees from Afghanistan by stating that “we have nothing to do with it, we have nothing to do with it”. He did not join the SP Burgenland’s demand that Interior Minister Karl Nehammer (ÖVP) should resign. “We are fighting to ensure that the turquoise-green federal government no longer exists, then I don’t have to constantly demand the resignation of ministers,” he said.
