Kerry will negotiate for their resettlement to the US.
Via The Local:
Austria has said it will seek to cap the number of asylum seekers at 37,500 in 2016, less than half of the 90,000 claims accepted last year.
“We can’t take in all asylum seekers in Austria,” Chancellor Werner Faymann said on Wednesday after a national asylum summit in Vienna.
The government plans to limit the total amount of claims to “about 130,000” over the next four years, on top of those filed in 2015.
“We have fixed this number as a guideline… We will study what happens when this limit is reached,” Faymann noted.
The four-year cap, which represents 1.5 percent of Austria’s 8.5 million population, was an “emergency solution” serving as a “wake-up call for the EU”, the chancellor added.
State and federal leaders also discussed strengthening border controls, speeding up the deportations of failed asylum applicants and making it harder for family members to join those who settle in Austria.
The move is a further sign that the government is hardening its stance in Europe’s worst refugee crisis since 1945.