Austria has said they will deport around 100,000 Syrian refugees now the dictator Bashar al-Assad has been toppled and fled to Russia.
The Labour will not send the Syrian refugees back until Syria is what they consider “safe” as it is “too early.”
The Austrian Interior Minister Gerhard Karner said, “I have instructed the ministry to prepare an orderly return and deportation program to Syria.”
The Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer said the government will “support all Syrians who have found refuge in Austria and want to return to their home country.”
He added the “security situation in Syria must also be reassessed in order to make deportations possible again in the future.”
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Angela Eagle, Labour’s Border Security and Asylum Minister told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, “When people have leave to remain in this country it lasts for 5 years unless it is granted indefinitely, and we review the country situations after five years.
“We will be able to look at how things have happened and think about whether we ask them to return, but it’s far too early for us to know or predict how this might work. We will not be deporting anybody back to Syria. We have to make sure that Syria is safe before anybody can go back.”
The Home Office has “paused decision” on Syrian asylum claims following Assad being toppled by rebels on Sunday.
After the outbreak of civil war in Syria millions fled for safety after Assad committed war crimes in his cruel attacks on his opponents.
In the UK thousands have been given asylum and many have said they want to return back to Syria now Assad has fled to Russia.
Eagle told Times Radio, “We have suspended our consideration of the current asylum claims – about 6,500 – until we can see what emerges from the current situation.
“If people wish to go home we’d certainly like to facilitate that, but I think it’s too early to say what will emerge from the events that have happened in the last few days.”
