The leader of the Sweden Democrats Jimmie Åkesson celebrates at the party’s election watch in Nacka, near Stockholm late Sunday evening on September 11, 2022.
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SD leader Jimmie Åkesson described the new measures as “self-evident in every welfare state.”
The right-wing populist Sweden Democrats (SD) continue to push for the introduction—and, more importantly, the implementation—of tougher migration laws, which it says are crucial for making the country safer.
On Wednesday, it announced that from this summer onwards, some authorities will be “obliged” to inform the police “when there is reason to believe that a person lacks the right to stay in the country.” Police, meanwhile, are to be given “extended powers” to establish the identity of potential illegals, meaning “the work against people who are illegally present in Sweden can be carried out more effectively and consistently.”
Illegala utlänningar ska hittas. I sommar införs anmälningsplikt.
Flera myndigheter får nu skyldighet att dela information med Polisen när det finns anledning att anta att en person saknar rätt att vistas i landet. Samtidigt stärks möjligheterna att fastställa identitet, bland… pic.twitter.com/CHuioA4fqM
SD leader Jimmie Åkesson, who helped push for these changes, said it was “another piece of legislation that feels self-evident in every welfare state.”
Without order and structure and respect for the country’s borders and laws, we will, in the long term, have no welfare.
The party is also working to strengthen approaches to border control on a European Union-wide level, and on Thursday celebrated the green-lighting in the European Parliament of stricter detention and deportation plans.
SD MEP Charlie Weimers said this showed “there is a new consensus in Europe,” adding:
The era of deportations has begun.
Parliament has just voted for a new stricter return regulation.
Italian MEP Isabella Tovaglieri agreed that “with this vote, we can finally breathe a sigh of relief: repatriations will at last be simplified and sped up.” She called on her conservative colleagues to “keep it up.”
Michael Curzon is a news writer for europeanconservative.com based in England’s Midlands. He is also Editor of Bournbrook Magazine, which he founded in 2019, and previously wrote for London’s Express Online. His Twitter handle is @MichaelCurzon_.
