Austrian chancellor demands EU border patrols return every migrant picked up trying to reach Greece to Turkey

Chancellor Werner Faymann said border police should save everyone trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea to reach the EU, but then immediately deport them.

He added that Austria would extend its border controls if Turkey did not take back refugees picked on their way to Greece and returned.

Faymann, the leader of Austria’s Social Democratic Party, said in an interview that sending back migrants and refugees to Turkey is the only measure that would make a radical enough impact, Mail Online added.

"Frontex (the EU’s border agency) must pick up the people fleeing to Greece. We have to save all of them, but then these people should be sent directly to Turkey," Social Democrat Faymann said.