Dozens of graves were smeared with black spray paint: ‘Allah’, ‘cowards’, ‘I hate you’ as well as tags referring to politicians or various events. Tags announce dates of death of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Marine Le Pen or Jordan Bardella or of Pascal Praud, others refer to Mila or ‘Revenge for Cherbourg’.
Tags on Calvaries in Saint-Pantaly-d’Excideuil, Cherveix-Cubas, Saint-Mesmin and Coulaures had already been detected in the neighbouring villages since December. A first cemetery was sprayed in Clermont d’Excideuil at the beginning of March. ‘It’s the same as in the other villages, especially Clermont,’ says the mayor of Tourtoirac.
On May 5, 2024 at 22:25 in Reims (Marne), a person with Tunisian nationality and illegal residence boarded the tram at the Comédie stop and ordered passengers to move to the back. He declared that he was in possession of a bomb, showed a gas detector and chanted ‘Allahu akkbar’, as Valeurs actuelles learnt from a police source. Six passengers were able to overpower him, whereupon he was arrested by the special unit at Courlancy station. The heavily intoxicated man was known to the law enforcement agency (TAJ) but unknown to the secret service (renseignement territorial). He was taken into police custody.
The Kansas City Star has published a glowing profile on a transgender inmate convicted of operating a multi-state sex trafficking ring, praising his “fight for rights” while incarcerated at a Kansas prison. Ayana Satyagrahi, formerly known as Marcus Choice Williams, is serving 30 years in a federal institution for his crimes against women.
Written by journalist Katie Pierce, the piece opens by describing Satyagrahi’s childhood fascination with his sister’s clothing.
“Ayana Satyagrahi was five when she found herself playing in her bedroom closet and putting on her younger sister’s yellow sundress. Now 49, she lives in a cell at the men’s prison in Leavenworth not much larger than that closet,” the article begins, noting that “Satyagrahi is one of an estimated 2,170 transgender people under the supervision of the Federal Bureau of Prisons.”
The vast majority of the article is dedicated to Satyagrahi’s claimed struggles as he is incarcerated in a men’s prison, with Satyagrahi claiming that that the Bureau of Prisons is “hostile” towards transgender inmates.
‘Live my truth’: Transgender woman fights for rights inside Leavenworth men’s prison https://t.co/yhh4AQWAGw
Just one line is dedicated to Satyagrahi’s crimes, with Pierce writing that he was “sentenced to 30 years in a sex trafficking case,” and later dismissing Satyagrahi’s crimes as “recruiting women into sex work.”
But court records and Department of Justice releases paint a drastically different picture of Satyagrahi’s crimes, revealing that he was a violent pimp who targeted the most vulnerable women and trapped them the sex trade using violence.
According to a 2011 release by the FBI, Attorney General for Civil Rights Thomas E. Perez said that Satyagrahi’s exploitation of vulnerable women through sex trafficking was the equivalent of “modern-day slavery.”
Beginning in 2003, Satyagrahi began operating as a pimp in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. In 2006, he expanded his operations into a multi-state sex trafficking enterprise, operating “escorting” websites and facilitating the sexual purchase of women.
Satyagrahi would specifically target vulnerable women, specifically single mothers from troubled backgrounds, and, in some cases, he used a combination of deception, fraud, coercion, threats and physical violence to keep the women under his control. The FBI release emphasized that the victims “suffered physical assaults, sexual abuse, and daily degradation,” and that Satyagrahi had a “callous disregard for them as individuals.”
Satyagrahi required each woman to meet a daily “quota,” giving him all of the money they collected. While Satyagrahi prostituted numerous women over the years, five sex trafficking victims were named in his 2011 indictment, all of whom were single mothers of small children.
In 2020, Satyagrahi filed a Writ of Habeas Corpus, seeking relief after being punished for threatening a correctional officer during an altercation over “gender affirming” clothing items while incarcerated at USP Marion. According to the complaint, Satyagrahi had been given male boxers rather than feminine undergarments as he had requested, and lashed out at a correctional officer as a result.
According to the officer, Satyagrahi said: “you ain’t gonna’ do nothing for me you fuckin’ pussy. When I get out of [special housing] I’m gonna’ whoop your ass you fuckin’ cracker.’” Satyagrahi was written up for abusive language as a result, and lost some privileges after a disciplinary hearing found him guilty of the infraction.
The Kansas City Star article notes that Satyagrahi has launched a “Transgender Accessible Prisons Initiative,” advocating for trans-identified male inmates to have pat downs conducted by female officers or a body scanner, the option for single-cell housing, and the creation of a transgender-only recreation yard.
As noted by the Kansas City Star article, Satyagrahi is one of over 2,000 transgender people in federal custody, 1,295 of whom are males who identify as “women.” Of them, just over 47% were incarcerated for sex offenses.
In January of 2022, the Bureau of Prisons re-issued its Transgender Offender Manual, which included guidelines previously scrubbed by the Trump administration with respect to gender self-identification for federal inmates. Under Trump, housing was based on biological sex alone, but the Biden policies re-invoked Obama-era guidelines which make a transgender inmate’s “personal safety” a priority.
The guidelines also state that “misgendering” is expressly forbidden, and that taxpayers must subsidize cosmetic surgeries, sex hormones, and brassieres for men who claim to identify as transgender.
While housing decisions are made on a case-by-case basis, with a Transgender Executive Council reviewing decisions every few months, extremely violent trans-identified males have successfully been transferred to women’s federal prisons after logging civil rights complaints.
As previously reported by Reduxx, a trans-identified male convicted of rape and child sexual abuse was transferred to a women’s federal prison after launching a lawsuit against the Bureau of Prisons claiming “discrimination.” July Justine Shelby, born William McClain, was convicted on multiple counts of child pornography trafficking after being caught distributing photos of infants being sexually abused.
It is very likely that the issue of “trans kids” – children suffering from gender dysphoria – will be an issue in the next Canadian federal election. Federal Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre has stated his opposition to giving puberty blockers to children, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has responded with his familiar faux outrage. As the consensus on the transgender pharmaceutical and surgical industry begins to shift, Trudeau is immovable – and the only strategy Canada’s progressive establishment has for hanging on to power after a devastating decade of damage to the country is to portray the Conservatives as invading “far-right” American culture warriors.
If Canada had a functioning opposition press, this would be a harder strategy for Trudeau to employ. It is difficult to precisely disentangle the snarl of incentives created by the Liberal media bailout and the CBC’s taxpayer-funded budget; is the CBC working overtime to defend the transgender movement because their financial overlords want them to? Or, more likely, are they doing so because they, too, are staffed by staunch progressives and LGBT activists? Either way, positions that would be moderate and common sense in the U.K. are portrayed as “extreme” or “anti-LGBT” in Canada. Much of the Canadian media relies on a handful of LGBT activist academics for comment on any issue of controversy.
There are, however, a few notable exceptions that are worth noting – press stories that the Conservatives should keep close on hand. The first is an investigation by Radio-Canada, CBC’s French language arm titled “Trans Express” that exposed the transgender intervention pipeline in Canada. Radio-Canada sent a 14-year-old actress outfitted with a hidden camera into a private “gender clinic” to request cross-sex hormones. The girl went in alone – her parents were not with her, and she did not possess a referral from a doctor, psychologist, or therapist. Despite that, she was given a prescription in just 9 minutes.
The girl was asked to first review a form that listed the possible side effects of cross-sex hormones before she could see a doctor; upon meeting the doctor, the actress told him that she had an eating disorder but that she had seen videos online that had persuaded her she was actually born in the “wrong body.” None of this, apparently, triggered alarm bells for the doctor, who did not review the side effects of cross-sex hormones with her or examine any underlying conditions. The doctor did ask her if her parents supported her “transition” and wondered if she’d considered surgery such as a “mastectomy, removing the chest.”
The doctor also asked her if she wanted to preserve her fertility, an implicit acknowledgement of the lifelong damage the girl would suffer if she took the drugs he was so willing to prescribe. Transgender activists claim that these “treatments” are reversible, but most minors who embark on them are, in fact, eliminating their ability to have children naturally.
“I understand that it’s a bit far off for you, at 14… Is fertility something you want to preserve before you start?” the doctor asked. “Er…no. I always knew I didn’t want children,” said the girl. “Okay,” was the doctor’s only response. Less than 10 minutes from the start of the appointment, her prescription was being filled out. “Of course, when you’re 14, we don’t give adult doses right away, because you don’t want your hair to start growing the next morning,” the doctor told her. “I’m going to start you on an intermediate dose… between adult and non-binary.” Radio-Canada’s conclusion: teenagers in Quebec are being rushed into irreversible “transitions.”
Another report was published on April 30 by the National Post, one of the only newspapers that has consistently reported stories that run counter to the Canadian progressive establishment and the LGBT movement on these issues, titled “Who’s Carl? When parents are the last to know about their trans kids [sic].” The report opens with a story that should send a chill up any parents’ spine:
It was around Christmas 2021 when Robin discovered her child, a biological girl, had socially transitioned at school. Nearing the end of the fall term, an Ontario public school teacher gave Robin and her husband a school report notifying them, “Carl was doing really good.”
“My husband and I looked at each other,” Robin recalled and asked, “Who’s Carl?” Robin said they later learned their 14-year-old, “Claire,” told a teacher she felt like a boy and the educator “established that our child would be he/him by a new name at school without us knowing.”
Schools have become the most contentious battleground in the nation’s polarized gender wars. Parents, educators, activists and lawmakers are squaring off over who has the best interests of children in mind when it comes to gender identity and sexuality. Making matters worse is the rapid surge in adolescents presenting with gender dysphoria, especially biological girls. The phenomena, “unlike that in any prior historical period,” was documented in the recent British Cass report on trans kids [sic].
Despite the fact that much of this story is being reported using LGBT activist-approved language only, the facts laid out in the National Post report – which features interviews with 10 parents revealing how the Canadian public school system has been hijacked by the transgender movement – will be very inconvenient for politicians who wish to defend this behavior. As the Post noted:
In half of the families, the transition happened in secret, without their knowledge or consent. All the parents said they faced major obstacles with school board policies that kept them out of the private lives of their minor children. In Ontario, many school boards, including some of the province’s largest, require a minor’s consent before disclosing to parents and guardians when their child begins socially transitioning.
The parents spoke to the National Post on condition of anonymity because they feared that publicly criticizing trans-affirming care [sic] would endanger their relationships with their children and damage their reputations and livelihoods. Their names, and the names of their children, have been changed. A number are health-care workers, from nurses to hospital administrators. Some volunteered their progressive political leanings.
Consider that fact for a moment: parents in Canada do not dare to openly discuss how their children were socially “transitioned” to a different gender in secret for fear of being viciously attacked by the movement that our prime minister, his party, and much of the progressive establishment are a part of. This is despite the fact that all of the parents said that the schools “undermined their children’s well-being, destabilized the family and alienated them from their children. They said it represented a massive overreach by teachers and school administrators into their family lives.” All of the children were girls. Some parents had social services called on them.
The Post report detailed the various school board policies across Ontario, virtually all of which make specific provisions for keeping “transition” a secret from parents; Hamilton’s school board notes that “In cases in which students aged 4–12 years of age have requested a name and pronouns be used that correspond to the gender with which they identify and do not have parent/guardian consent, the principal will discuss a safety plan and next steps with the Superintendent of Student Achievement.” Even four-year-olds can be introduced to the idea of transgenderism, decide to identify other than their sex, and have that hidden from parents. Near Northern District also has no age limit.
When families object to their children being “transitioned,” Canadian school staff are increasingly calling Children’s Aid (CAS) to investigate them for abuse:
Increasingly, educators are turning to CAS to investigate families seen as unaffirming. “Anecdotally, we are hearing from our member agencies that they are increasingly being contacted by community members about issues related to gender identity,” the Ontario Association of Children’s Aid Societies organization told the Post.
“When assessing whether a concern of this nature should be investigated, child welfare agencies use the measurement thresholds in the Eligibility Spectrum related to the assessment of emotional/psychological risk or harm. Further, when assessing a concern raised about the well-being of a child or youth, child welfare agencies must ensure they are adhering to Katelynn’s Principle, which puts children and youth’s voices and identities at the centre of all decision-making,” the group added in a statement.
Christina is a parent of a 12-year-old biological daughter in the York Catholic District School Board who experienced repeated interventions by CAS. Christina objected to using male pronouns for her child because Christina saw the gender dysphoria issue as an underlying mental health crisis. She said her adolescent rapidly began altering gender identity during the pandemic but hadn’t previously expressed any body discomfort. “I was very depressed and hated my body for not being more masculine. I began self-harming and having suicidal thoughts,” the child wrote in a personal essay shared with the Post.
“Because the school was hiding a lot of stuff from my parents, I was just trying my best not to accidentally tell my parents about that stuff,” the child alleged in an interview with the Post. “My principal, she talked to me a few times, and she said that she understands that I’m in a very bad position; that my parents are not doing what they should be, they’re harming me, and that if I ever need to talk to a children’s aid worker, she can always call them for me,” the child alleged. The child eventually desisted from transitioning, but not before the family was nearly torn apart by teachers and principals who allegedly saw Christina’s opposition as child abuse.
The Post’s report includes multiple other stories – of struggling girls who decided to identify as LGBT after being introduced to these concepts and identities in the school curriculum; of parents getting visits from social workers who claimed that they had received reports of “anti-LGBTQ remarks” being made at home; of mental health issues being diagnosed as gender dysphoria. The transgender movement and Canada’s progressive establishment insists that these things are not happening – that only wicked bigots oppose the radical policies imposed by school boards over the past decade. This is not the case, and it needs to be called out, loudly and consistently.
Canada’s progressive establishment has used LGBT issues as wedges for almost two decades. They have finally pushed too far. That is why, following New Brunswick, province after province has passed parental notification legislation; a 2023 poll found that a super-majority of Canadians, 78%, support this move. Alberta has gone a step further, proposing a ban on “sex changes” for minors. Trudeau and his political allies appear determined, thus far, to run against Canadian parents in the next election. Common-sense politicians should welcome this challenge. This national travesty has to end.
Germany: Poster with the inscription ” Kill AFD members” at a radical left-wing anti-AfD demonstration – and two police officers walk alongside and do not intervene. Screengrab X
A brutal attack on a German leftist politician—that left the victim hospitalised—has turned into a witch hunt against the country’s second most popular party, the anti-globalist Alternative für Deutschland (AfD). However, statistics reveal that while the AfD is being singled out for “threatening democracy,” it is members of the right-wing party that have suffered the most physical harm.
Demonstrations were held in Berlin and Dresden on Sunday, May 5th to protest right-wing extremism and political violence, following an attack on Friday on a Social Democrat (SPD) Member of the European Parliament. Verbal abuse and physical assaults against campaigning politicians have become commonplace on German streets.
Matthias Ecke, aged 41, was hanging up posters in Dresden ahead of June’s European parliamentary elections when he was physically assaulted by four young men in a horrendous attack: his cheekbone was fractured, an eye socket damaged, and he suffered cuts and bruises to his face. Ecke is now recovering well following surgery on Sunday. Prior to this assault, the youths are believed to have beaten a Green Party staffer who was also hanging campaign posters in the same neighbourhood.
Obwohl die Hintergründe der Gewalttat auf den SPD-Politiker Matthias Ecke nicht bekannt sind, fanden am Sonntag Kundgebungen gegen die AfD statt. Nur einige Tausend erschienen bundesweit. Dort wurde die AfD u.a. als „Nazi-Partei“ diffamiert.https://t.co/xYILJvr7iR
Party leaders from across the political spectrum condemned the attack, immediately blaming “far-right” extremists for the assault, and the opposition right-wing AfD party for sowing discord in society. Though the motives of the four perpetrators—aged between 17 and 18—are currently not known, the fact that they were wearing black was enough to convince mainstream parties and the media that they are somehow connected to the AfD.
Although the attack on Matthias Ecke was one of the most severe in recent times, politicians are continuously being verbally harassed and physically assaulted in Germany, and AfD members have had it the worst—a fact that mainstream media is unwilling to share.
Authorities recently revealed that there were 86 instances last year of AfD politicians being physically assaulted. The Greens finished second with 62 such cases. Mainstream media have instead been focusing on another number: 2,790, which represents all instances of abuse carried out against politicians, including physical and verbal abuse—such as threats, insults, and slander. In this broader category, Green politicians were on the receiving end of these assaults most of the time, in 947 cases, while AfD members “only” had to suffer such abuse 236 times last year.
The AfD is projected to finish in second place at the European elections, with 17-18% of the votes, and is expected to be the strongest party in three regional elections in the Eastern states of Brandenburg, Saxony, and Thuringia this autumn, possibly winning a third of all seats. The party’s rise—triggered by the leftist government’s poor handling of the cost-of-living, energy and migration crises, and the general disenchantment with mainstream parties—has alarmed the country’s political elite, which is attempting to politically cripple and even ban the party.
The governing Social Democrats’ co-chair Saskia Esken—who last week in an interview equated AfD with chief Nazi propagandist Joseph Göbbels—said “far-right” parties prompting discontent and contempt for democracy was to blame for a recent spate of verbal and physical attacks on politicians.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) also denounced the “threat” posed by “far-right” political violence, saying such attacks result from “the atmosphere created by the discourse of pitting people against each other.” Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser has called for a meeting on Tuesday with her state-level colleagues to discuss the rise of political violence across Germany. The heads of the SPD in Saxony issued a statement in which they blamed the AfD, saying “these people and their supporters bear responsibility for what is happening in this country.”
Conservative publication Apollo News also points out the hypocrisy of media coverage involving recent attacks. While the assault on Matthias Ecke has garnered international media attention and has been dominating the headlines in Germany for days, a Saturday attack on local AfD politician Holger Kühnlenz—who was punched in the face—hardly received any attention at all, and was only mentioned in the regional news section of the public news service Tagesschau’s website.
Den Angriff auf den AFD Politiker Holger Kühnlenz findet man bei der Tagesschau unter Regional Niedersachsen. Der Angriff auf den SPD Politiker Matthias Ecke ist das Topthema im Bereich Innenpolitik. pic.twitter.com/ZIP25cJd3l
Last week, two Greens deputies were also physically attacked while campaigning in Essen in western Germany, but the events were quickly hushed up—along with the disclosure of the alleged perpetrator’s Arabic origin.
Last year’s stabbing of AfD leader Tino Chrupalla with a hypodermic syringe was met with callousness and malice from leftist politicians, who insinuated that Chrupalla had staged the incident.
Following the violent death of a 34-year-old woman in Göttingen, an arrest warrant was issued for her husband on Monday. There is an urgent suspicion of manslaughter, said senior public prosecutor Andreas Buick on the decision of the magistrate. The accused remains silent on the charges.
The 39-year-old man is accused by the Göttingen public prosecutor’s office of being responsible for the death of his wife, who was separated from him. The woman was found dead with serious injuries in a flat in a block of flats in the Grone district early on Sunday morning following an emergency call. An emergency doctor was only able to confirm her death. The suspected perpetrator was arrested on the spot without resistance. In addition to another emergency call, he is also said to have called the emergency services himself.
Information about the course of events, a possible motive and the exact cause of death remained unclear on Monday. Information about a possible murder weapon, for example, could not be provided for the time being for tactical investigative reasons, said Chief Public Prosecutor Buick. According to him, the victim and the alleged perpetrator are Syrian nationals.
According to the public prosecutor’s office, the couple have four children together. According to Buick, all four are still minors and were in the flat at the time of the crime. They have been taken into care. The investigation into the case is ongoing.
Westminster is about to cave in, on your behalf, to 18 islamist demands – just as students occupy their Oxford and Cambridge university grounds, in support of the islamists.
Keplerplatz in the Favoriten district of Vienna is considered a hotspot for immigrant and foreigner crime as well as a drug dealing centre. The church located there has already been the victim of religiously motivated vandalism in the past – now it has been defaced with Arabic lettering. For months now, the police have declared Keplerplatz in the Favoriten district of Vienna a danger zone – to no avail. The rampant foreign infiltration continues to ensure that crime remains high and drug dealing flourishes. Media reports have labelled the square the ‘most dangerous place’ in Vienna. However, it is not only the residents who suffer under the circumstances, but also the church located there.
A few months ago, it was the victim of a religiously motivated attack. Last November, a Syrian man tore a statue of the Madonna from its moorings in the church and stole a wooden cross. In addition, people regularly urinate on the walls of the church: ‘In summer, I have to clean everything with a water hose, otherwise the pungent urine odour is unbearable,’ says the priest in charge.
Now the church has been defaced with Arabic characters, as the following pictures sent to the Heimatkurier show:
“Privacy and dignity” will be protected by new regulations which means a host of commercial and public buildings must have separate loos for men and women, the British government says.
Long-discussed amendments to building regulations making separate loos available for the two sexes in newbuilds and major rebuild projects will take effect later this year, government Secretary of State for Business and Trade and Minister for Women and Equalities Kemi Badenoch has said.
Any new or rebuilt bar, restaurant, office, school, or hospital — most non-domestic buildings, in other words — must provide men’s’ and women’s’ loos rather than what have been called gender-neutral lavatories in order to receive planning permission. The government say this will help protect “safety, privacy and dignity”.
An exception will exist for premises where two sets of loos can’t be provided — for instance where it is too small to have both — but in those cases self-contained facilities where a loo, sink, and hand-dryer inside a single, lockable room would have to be provided, still ensuring total privacy while in use. These are characterised by the government as “dedicated, self-contained ‘unisex’ toilets which maintain privacy for the single user”.
Badenoch said the rules mean there would be “better provision for women so that our particular biological, health and sanitary needs are met”. The regulations, she said, will: “guide organisations to design unisex and single-sex toilets, ending the rise of so-called gender-neutral mixed sex toilet spaces, which deny privacy and dignity to both men and women”.
Just last week, she revealed schoolgirls in the United Kingdom who had been denied single-sex loos had developed urinary tract infections, such was their aversion to gender-neutral toilets.
Plans to make these changes have been in in the air for several years. A 2020 government-ordered review of “toilet provision” found “increasing numbers of publicly accessible toilets are being converted into ‘gender neutral’ facilities, causing problems for women and older people in particular”. In 2021 the government made moves to improve the overall provision of public loos by introducing tax relief on the facilities, and in 2022, Badenoch addressed Parliament to make a statement on the issue.
She said: “Women also need safe spaces given their particular biological, health and sanitary needs… Women are also likely to feel less comfortable using mixed sex facilities… The Government is also aware of broader concerns that women’s biological differences are being ‘erased’ in public life.” Badenoch revealed then, in July 2022, that the government intended to amend building regulations “to ensure separate toilets for men and women continues to be provided”.
Responding to the latest announcement that this amendment was actually taking effect this year, state broadcaster the BBC dutifully reported opposition to the plan by long-controversial child transgender charity Mermaids, who complained: “In order to ensure everyone is served fairly and that everyone can feel comfortable using public toilet facilities, not only are gender-specific facilities in which trans people can feel safe in using vital, but gender-neutral facilities are also greatly necessary to ensure non-binary people’s experiences with toilet facilities are one of comfort.”
Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer wants to curb the influx of migrants entering the country due to family reunification by utilizing DNA tests and other checks. However, the right-wing Freedom Party (FPÖ) of Austria is calling for far more stringent controls on family reunification, including setting the chain migration quota to zero.
On Sunday, the head of Austria’s government announced the increased use of genetic tests to prove family relationships, a move that he announced in the run-up to the EU parliamentary elections as his government comes under enormous pressure due to record levels of immigration.
The Austrian chancellor belongs to the Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP), which is currently in a coalition with the Green party. The rival FPÖ has long attacked the ÖVP as being weak on migration, with the FPÖ promoting the Fortress Europe policy package. The FPÖ also wants a complete ban on family reunification, a move that would drastically reduce immigration to Austria and, if implemented throughout Europe, would not only curtail immigration but even lead to potentially millions of foreigners simply leaving EU nations.
🇦🇹🇪🇺 "Our common goal is to protect our countries, to protect the Western world from illegal migration and unorganized abuse of asylum so that Europe does not become a second Arabia or Africa."
In fact, just last month, the FPÖ, which is currently the most popular party in the country, called for ending family reunification entirely, with Lower Austrian FPÖ Asylum State Councilor Dr. Christoph Luisser stating: “We are setting the family reunification quota to zero.”
“ÖVP Interior Minister Karner has not yet brought together a new settlement regulation. As a result, family reunifications are forced every month, which clearly contradicts the interests of Lower Austria,” added Luisser.
The issue of family reunification is plagued with fraudulent activity across the Western world, often with migrants openly flouting the system to bring in dozens of so-called family members and charging a fee for it, as is the case in Germany involving one notorious Nigerian migrant. Austria is having the same issues.
The ÖVP’s watered-down DNA test measure will also be introduced along with other methods designed to slow down family reunification, but not stop them entirely. However, critics are also noting that these DNA tests are already conducted in cases where documents are in doubt.
Ultimately, there are enough legitimate family members for migrants to ensure a steady stream of immigrants through family reunification, while only curtailing egregious fraud, which was often already detected when documents were found to be suspect.
Under the new rules, security checks will be conducted with the help of document experts, and security officers are to take more stringent methods, Nehammer told the Austrian news agency APA.
“We will restrict family reunification through strict checks,” said the chancellor. He did disclose how many cases of fraud authorities have discovered.
“How evil is that?”
“First you let terrorists into Europe, and then you take away the freedoms of citizens and create mass surveillance just to protect yourself from terrorists?”
While family reunification was slowed due to the coronavirus pandemic, the flow of migrants through this process is picking up steam, especially in Vienna. As a result, the educational system is buckling under the pressure.
According to City Councillor for Education Christoph Wiederkehr, schools need to find spots for 350 new children every month. As a result, schools are turning to building construction containers for new classrooms to deal with the unrelenting flow of newcomers.
The Austrian Ministry of the Interior registered around 6,900 asylum applications in the first quarter of 2024. Of these, 45 percent were made by migrants who obtained an entry permit as part of family reunification. In 2023, this proportion was only 16 percent, signaling that more and more migrants are using chain migration to gain a foothold in Austria.
