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Refugees arriving in Stockholm last month. Photo: Jonas Ekströmer/TT

Sweden minister: 'speed up deportations'

Published: 10 Oct 2015 16:06 GMT+02:00

Forced deportations of asylum seekers who have been refused entry to Sweden must be intensified, Swedish minister for migration, Morgan Johansson, told Swedish Radio on Saturday.

Johansson pointed out that approximately 6,000 people with deportation orders are still living in Sweden.

“You must surely start with them. The space is needed for newly arrived asylum seekers,” Johansson said.

Since 2011 between 3,000 and 4,000 people have been deported annually. Now Johansson says that more money should be spent on enforcing the deportation orders, with the funds directed to the police and other authorities who handle deportations.

The more long-term work is, according to Johansson, finding and reject those who have deportation orders but who live hidden "in a shadowy existence", often exploited by unscrupulous employers who take advantage of their situation.

Johansson also insisted that the government has control over the escalating refugee crisis.

However, to improve the nation’s preparedness he called for the support of the conservatives in parliament for a law that obliges municipalities to receive refugees. So far, the opposition has rejected the proposal.

An increasing proportion of refugees due to be deported from Sweden are instead disappearing. Last year Migrationsverket decided to expel more than 20,000 people. But the proportion of those leaving the country voluntarily after the expulsion order was reduced to 41%.

That left 11,112 set for police investigation Some of those were forcibly deported, but in most cases the refugees went underground.

According to Migrationsverket, the vast majority of the "disappeared" are Dublin Regulation cases.

Under the Dublin Regulation, refugees are deported back to the first EU country they entered, often Italy or Greece, which have the worst welfare provision. But if refugees can delay their re-applications by 18 months, they may be able to stay in Sweden, hence the motivation to go underground.

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“You must surely start with them. The space is needed for newly arrived asylum seekers,” Johansson said.

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The number of migrants arriving on the Greek islands near Turkey has surged to about 7,000 a day in the past week, migration experts working there say.

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said the average in late September was 4,500 a day.

Fears of worsening weather may account for the surge, the IOM says.

The EU's migrant relocation scheme got under way on Friday when 20 Eritreans left Italy on a flight to Sweden. Some EU member states object to the scheme.

Meanwhile, Turkey has voiced concern about the potential for even more Syrian migrants arriving at its border because of Russian air strikes in Syria.

The warning was issued by Turkish foreign ministry spokesman Tanju Bilgic. Turkey already hosts about two million Syrian refugees, many of whom are desperate to leave the emergency

camps and start a new life in Europe.

Migrant arrivals in Greece 'surge' to 7,000 daily - IOM - BBC News (video)

so if swedish deport hundreds of thousands but bring to grant millions of migrants what's the use in the first place ? answer in sweeden II