I was not contending about whether they should come here, and i think many immigrants would be better off spiritually in their own country, but the premise behind your question "why can’t they stay there, get jobs,and start a new life just like they want to do here?," which was that that they could get jobs. Yet which they could not nor attend school, besides not receive government benefits while they wait for the United States to process their cases.
And we can only speculate on the chances of Austria allowing them to become citizens in their country. The problem relative to that may be related to this:
Austria Blocks 300 Refugees Trying to Get to U.S. - The Daily Beast.
Did you wonder why Austria, Switzerland, Norway, and Iceland all stop the entry of immigrants. They stopped them from just walking on their country. They claim they have too many immigrants. So do we that we are limiting them by setting requirements to get into this country. Yet, the illegals from Mexico continue to cross. We can’t afford them, so we send them back as fast as we catch them. And they cross again. In Switzerland, they have helicopters with guns patrolling their borders. In the south, Mexico does to.
And you mentioned a very important issue with the thought of receiving government benefits. If they can’t stay in their country, and they can’t afford to take care of themselves, why should I, and the rest of the people in the US called taxpayers, cover their bill? I didn’t birth them, why should I support them? No one here is made of money. If you can’t not be a burden where you are going, and they are stupid enough to support you with no real end of it in sight, then that is their fault, not the immigrant. And apparently those countries I mentioned look at it that way also.
But it won’t be mine if I can stop it. I worked all my life to set myself up for retirement. Why should I set them up also? My kids are on their own doing their own lives. I don’t want to support any more.
rwood