Sweden sends sharp signal with plan to expel up to 80,000 asylum seekers
Move is another message to refugees
that Sweden’s warm welcome has cooled as many now face being forcibly ejected. Sweden’s migration minister, Morgan Johansson, discusses
plans for the deportation of asylum seekers, David Crouch in
Gothenburg, Thursday 28 January 2016 07.38 EST Last
Sweden is to reject up to 80,000 people who
applied for asylum in the country last year, as many as half of whom will be
forced to leave against their will, according to official estimates.
The
interior ministry has called on police and migration authorities to prepare for
a sharp increase in deportations, and to arrange charter flights to expel
refused asylum seekers to their country of origin. Sweden is also approaching
other EU countries, including Germany, to discuss cooperation to increase
efficiency and make sure flights are filled to capacity, it said.
On
Thursday Finland’s interior minister said Helsinki also intended to expel about
20,000 of the 32,000 asylum seekers it received in 2015. “In principle we speak
of about two-thirds, meaning approximately 65 percent of the 32,000 will get a
negative decision (to their asylum application),” Paivi Nerg, the ministry’s
administrative director, told Agence France-Presse.
Sweden
received more than 160,000 asylum applications last year – by far the biggest
influx in the EU as a proportion of the population. Between 60,000 and 80,000
of them will be rejected, the interior minister, Anders Ygeman, told Swedish
media on Thursday.
The
revelation that a large proportion of asylum seekers will be turned down, and
as many as half of failed applications will be forcibly ejected, sends another signal to refugees that Sweden is no longer extending the
warm welcome it offered to them just a few months ago.
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migration crisis: Greece threatened with Schengen area expulsion
Austria,
Germany and Sweden – which have taken in about 90% of asylum seekers over past
year – begin to row back on liberal admission policies
“Of
course it is a way of saying that if you come here and don’t have a case for
asylum, then you won’t be able to stay,” said Victor Harju, spokesperson for
Ygeman. “You can seek asylum in Europe
but there are a lot of safe countries where you won’t be troubled by war and
persecution, so you don’t necessarily have to end up in Sweden.”
Other
Scandinavian countries are stepping up their attempts to broadcast to the
war-torn regions of the world that they are no longer an attractive destination
for refugees. Norway last week began deporting asylum seekers to Russia through the Arctic, while Denmark’s new
law enabling police to confiscate cash and valuables from
refugees has drawn
sharp international criticism.
Sweden
started to introduce border controls in November to stem the number of asylum
seekers arriving there, which was running at 10,000 each week. In January it
made it impossible for refugees to cross the bridge linking Sweden with Denmark
unless they could show a passport or driving license, since when the numbers
are down to about 800 a week.
“If
it stays at these levels we expect 45,000 applications in 2016 – still a very
high number, but manageable,” Harju said.
Last
year Sweden turned down some 20,000 asylum applicants, or 45% of those who had
previously arrived and made claims. About 3,000 were deported with a further
7,000 who were handed over to police disappearing from the immigration system
and avoiding expulsion.
The
remaining 10,000 people whose applications were rejected left the country of
their own accord, the justice ministry said.
The
overall approval rate may increase in 2016, the immigration ministry said, as
the record 160,000 who put in asylum requests in 2015 included more citizens of
Afghanistan and Syria, for whom it is easier to obtain refugee status than for
other groups.
The Guardian view on asylum in Europe: the
closing north
Editorial: Border checks between
Denmark and Sweden start a competition across the region to repel refugees.
Syrians
used to receive an automatic right to permanent residency, but this was removed
late last year, to be replaced by temporary residence of up to three years.
However, it does not affect the way asylum applications are treated, according
to the ministry.
The
backlog of asylum applications in the system means it will take up to two years
for all the cases to be decided among 2015 applicants, the ministry said. The
migration board is still dealing with applications from 2014, with the average
processing time at more than eight months.
The border police said it was
“vigorously expanding” its activities and aiming to double police numbers in
the next few years to cope with the task of returning refused asylum seekers,
and to deal with the “significant risk” of people going underground to escape
deportation.
“What the government has done is
acknowledge that the issue of returning nationals to their country of origin is
going to be a big task because of the high numbers,” according to Jonatan
Holst, a spokesperson for the immigration ministry.
Sanna Vestin, chair of FARR, the
Swedish Network of Refugee Support Groups, said: “We are very concerned that in
this situation the government will play down proper procedure and rights just
to get rid of them. We have already had a suggestion to end the right to appeal
– the courts uphold the appeals in around 10% of cases.”
She added: “It would be better if
the government saw refugees as an investment in society’s future, rather than a
burden. We have a very good economy, in part because of having many
immigrants.”
Comments
Now is
the time for the rest of the European countries to adopt the same laws Sweden
and Denmark are using to reverse this migration. France, the UK, Belgium, Italy, Germany,
Austria, Spain and the rest should announce deportation policies to break up
the Muslims enclaves that form no-go zones.
They should also include revocation of citizenship.
Once
again, the UN and the Open Borders Global Marxists have perpetrated another
scam on Europe. These countries need to
push back on UN hubris and punish the UN and EU for the global warming hoax,
the multiculturalism hoax and reverse the implementation of all other UN
tyrannical programs.
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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