Sweden prepares to expel up to 80,000 migrants

Sweden plans to remove tens of thousands of asylum seekers from the country, according to the interior minister.

This measure would only apply to people whose applications had been rejected.


 The government has asked the police and migration officials to organize the expulsion, Interior Minister Anders Ygeman said on Wednesday.

"We are talking about 60,000 people but the number could climb to 80,000," the minister was quoted in the "Dagens Industri" newspaper as saying.

Ygeman added that only migrants who arrived last year, applied for asylum and were denied, would be sent home.

Sweden received some 160,000 migrants in 2015 , and has taken in more refugees per capita than any other EU country. The government estimates that around 45 percent of all asylum requests were rejected...
  http://dw.com/p/1Hkzs 
28/1/16
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