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migrant crisis: Sweden plans to expel up to 80,000 asylum seekers, minister says

Updated yesterday at 4:37pm

Sweden intends to expel up to 80,000 asylum seekers who arrived in 2015 and whose applications for asylum were rejected, Interior Minister Anders Ygeman has said.

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A new round of deportations of asylum seekers was due to be carried out on Tuesday night from the UK by the Home Office, according to activists.

Men and women from Sierra Leone and Eritrea were said to have been among those who were moved to Stansted from Home Office immigration removal centres including Harmondsworth, Yarl’s Wood and Colnbrook.

The Home Office said that it did not comment on operational matters. But deportation orders, which inform those involved that they were to be flown out to Nigeria, have been seen by the Guardian.

Guardian

Sweden’s longstanding reputation as the country most admired by “progressives” across the world — including those in Australia — for its liberal, open-door policy of welcoming refugees has been dealt a severe blow with the announcement it is to deport 80,000 migrants, nearly half of all those who have arrived in the past year. As well, the Stockholm government — like so many across Europe, at its wits’ end over how to handle the tidal wave of asylum-seekers — has overturned its system of open borders and imposed strict frontier controls.

 

The so-called “citadel of political correctness” or “generous humanitarian superpower”, as Sweden likes to call itself, has thus been brought down to earth by inescapable reality. Nothing, from an Australian perspective, better highlights the foresight of the offshore processing and asylum boat tow-back policies implemented against vitriolic criticism by the Abbott government when it came to power. These developments also highlight the prescience of Tony Abbott when he delivered his widely criticised Margaret Thatcher Lecture in London last October, warning against open borders and suggesting Europe faced potential catastrophe.

Australian 

Lets hope there is positive outcome to the Peace Talks undergoing in Geneva and all the Syrians can go back.

An impossible dream Abby.  With the Sunni hatred of the Shiites, who make up about 16% of the Syrian population, there can only be one of two possible outcomes.  1.  Have them return & the World will watch a religious war until the Shiites are all dead following successful genicide,  OR  2.   The World takes over Syria & splits it into 2 separate Countries occupid by the Sunnis & the Shiites respectively

I also agree with Denmark's new policy of confiscating valuables and delaying families reuniting for several years. This should stem the flow, since I think Europe is heading for a lot of trouble with so many people pouring in.

Subject: Why does Sweden have more boys than girls? - BBC News


http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35444173?ocid=socialflow_facebook&ns_mchannel=social&ns_campaign=bbcnews&ns_source=facebook Interesting article from the BBC in Sweden the 16 year old males now number 123 boys to 105 girls more than the China imbalance. The greater percentage of the Asylum seekers are Afghanis not Syrian of course without a control in place the imbalance could become even greater.

"And 92% of unaccompanied minors aged 16 and 17 years old are male. So why is this? "

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"If you're underage, first of all, you get housing, you get more financial resources. You also have a lot of staff around you helping you with different issues," says Hanif Bali, a member of the opposition Moderate Party in the Swedish parliament - which is on the centre right of the political spectrum. "If you need food, clothing, everything, you can go to the municipality and demand this money."

But there is another even bigger benefit, which Bali believes is significant. "You have the right to family reunification. So you can bring all of your family to Sweden, if you are underage." 

So there are huge incentives for getting to Sweden before you turn 18. This might explain why many young people make the journey at this point in their lives. 

Interestingly, when you break down the data by nationality, the bump of applicants aged 16 from Afghanistan is particularly noticeable. There are about seven or eight times more 16-year-old refugees from Afghanistan than from Syria; the ages of those applying to stay in Sweden from Syria and Iraq are more evenly spread.

 

Yes, the feel good feeling did not last long in Sweden and other countries like Germany.

Reality has set in...I can remember Australia being castigated on its stand re refugees...different tune being sung now.

Britain now has a problem they need to sort out...do they stay in the EU or not.  Once refugees get EU citizenship they can get into Britain.  And herein lies the problem.

The welfare system is beckoning and is very, very attractive to asylum seekers.  

The outcome of all this ..who knows and Tony Abbott was spot on when he gave his speech.

Spot on Radi .. 

Germany has moved to toughen its asylum policies as Finland and Sweden announced plans to deport tens of thousands of people in a bid to contain the migrant crisis.

Sigmar Gabriel, the vice chancellor, announced that Germany would place Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia on a list of “safe countries of origin” – meaning that migrants from those countries would have little chance of winning asylum.

'From hero to villain': Denmark comes to terms with outcry over refugee law  Read more

Some migrants would also be blocked from bringing their families to join them in Germany for two years, Gabriel said.

Guardian ( I am not a Guardian reader honest) 

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has tried to placate her critics by saying most recent asylum seekers will return to their home countries once conflicts there subside.  Merkel’s open-door policy towards refugees from northern Africa and the Middle East has isolated her politically, especially since gangs of refugees raped and abused women in Cologne on new year’s eve.  Growing concern about the country’s ability to cope and worries about crime and security are diminishing the popularity of Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union party and its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union.  Merkel said that despite efforts to integrate refugees and help them, it was important to stress that they had only been given permission to stay for a limited period of time.  “We need ... to say to people that this is a temporary residential status and we expect that once there is peace in Syria again, once Islamic State has been defeated in Iraq, that you go back to your home country with the knowledge that you have gained,” she said on Saturday at a meeting of CDU members.  Her remarks come after Horst Seehofer, leader of the CSU, threatened to take her government to court if his demand to stem the flow of asylum seekers was not met. Read the full report here.

The Turnbull government is ­considering boosting English, education and employment ser­vices for refugees amid new ­research showing only 7 per cent of a group of 2013 arrivals have jobs and budget estimates that welfare ­payments for new ­arrivals will ­exceed $100 million a year.

 

Assistant Minister for Multicultural Affairs Concetta Fierravanti-Wells said the high unemployment figures were another illustration of the “abysmal failure’’ of the Rudd-Gillard government’s boats policy.

Senator Fierravanti-Wells seized on a new report from the Australian Institute of Family Studies, which showed up to about 65 per cent of humanitarian arrivals surveyed were receiving Newstart, to declare Labor’s 2011 settlement services policy an “abysmal failure’’.

“This is also a direct result of Labor’s failure to stop the boats given a substantial component of the cohort in the study were illegal maritime arrivals,’’ Senator Fierravanti-Wells said.

rick, you say welfare payments would cost more than $100 million p.a.   can you give some evidence for this.  our refugee numbers are very small, nothing like the numbers forced to flee to europe.

Quote:“This is also a direct result of Labor’s failure to stop the boats given a substantial component of the cohort in the study were illegal maritime arrivals,’’ Senator Fierravanti-Wells said.

Without a doubt Labor stuffed up, we don't need any more of their stuff ups in the coming years.

The Turnbull government is ­considering boosting English, education and employment ser­vices for refugees amid new ­research showing only 7 per cent of a group of 2013 arrivals have jobs and budget estimates that welfare ­payments for new ­arrivals will ­exceed $100 million a year.


 

That's a very good move by the PM. We should be helping refugees not castigating them Rick.

 

I found your thread Pete, now b****r off.

Give up the bottle Mich 

You seem to have s chip on shoulder Mich ,

Raf and I are just having fun with s tinge of realty .z

Why are you so upset ?

I love the Jews 

but sometimes they can be irrationally exuberant 

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