European Migrant Crisis Update: Sweden May Deport 800,000; Finland Plans To Change Migration Rules
Following the Middle East crisis which resulted in the massive influx of refugees into the shores of Europe, a number of European nations have already taken drastic steps to stem an unprecedented flooding of asylum seekers and migrants.
Millions of desperate people mostly from war-torn countries in the Middle East has created a socio-political nightmare for European policymakers. Despite the impending dangers, migrants appear undeterred as they swarm the borders of Europe.
Because of the crisis, Merkel-led Germany mulled on changing its refugee policy by toughening rules on asylum application as Finland and Sweden move to expel tens of thousands of refugees. The refugee open-arms policy of various European countries are currently being re-examined in the light of growing migrant crisis which took Europe in extreme surprise.
Sweden announced mass deportations in the coming years. According to BBC, Sweden posted the highest per capita number of asylum seekers with 163, 000 migrants hoping to have their application granted. But the government insisted that they could not accept beyond their limited resources.
"We are talking about 60,000 people but the number could climb to 80,000." said Swedish Interior Minister Anders Ygeman on the estimated number of expulsions his country is planning to do as quoted by The Guardian.
Sharing a similar sentiment with Sweden, Finland, another Nordic country, is bent on deporting 20, 000 migrants back to their homeland.
"In principle we speak of about two thirds, meaning approximately 65 per cent of the 32,000 [that arrived in 2015] will get a negative decision [on their asylum applications]," remarked Paivi Nerg, the administrative director of the Finnish Interior Ministry as mentioned in a report by ABC.
