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Sweden sends sharp signal with plan to expel up to 80,000 asylum seekers


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2016 Feb 1, 10:44am   3,463 views  6 comments

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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.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/28/sweden-to-expel-up-to-80000-rejected-asylum-seekers

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1   Ceffer   2016 Feb 1, 12:37pm  

To blunt the pain of the send off, the Swedish Bikini Team will be waving bye bye with pom poms and twerking!

2   MisdemeanorRebel   2016 Feb 1, 12:39pm  

5 Kroner says Swedish parties just ran poll numbers, and realized if they didn't get tough on immigrants, the next election would see SD with a majority.

3   MisdemeanorRebel   2016 Feb 1, 1:54pm  

Sargon on with "Angry Foreigner, the guy below, live.

www.youtube.com/embed/kZeJVKRjhq4

4   HEY YOU   2016 Feb 1, 2:38pm  

Sell weapons to the Middle East to destabilize govt. & wonder where all them fur-er-ners come from.
Retarded Swedes elect idiots to govt. that won't act for the voters best interest?
Must be a bunch of Dems & Reps living there & voting.

5   Dan8267   2016 Feb 1, 7:02pm  

All the refugees should be made to eat Swedish cuisine.

www.youtube.com/embed/sY_Yf4zz-yo

6   Tenpoundbass   2016 Feb 1, 7:04pm  

The Danes are offering 500 Euros to go back home.

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