All eight parties back work on young-adult deportation stop law

All eight parliamentary parties have agreed to begin work on a law to stop deportations of young people who arrived in Sweden as children and fall outside the government’s safeguards. The agreement starts legislative work; it does not itself halt removals.

The social insurance committee in Sweden’s parliament took the decision on Tuesday and agreed to invite the Migration Agency and Migration Minister Johan Forssell to a meeting, Aftonbladet reports.

Green MP Annika Hirvonen says the parties will work on a stop law for young people not covered by the government’s proposal. She hopes the government will cooperate so that the law can change quickly, and wants the agency to pause deportations in the meantime.

That pause remains her request. Hirvonen acknowledges that the Migration Agency makes its own decisions. The committee’s decision excludes deportations for crimes and security cases.

Christian Democrat committee member Ingemar Kihlström says the Tidö parties are positive in principle but have questions about the boundaries of a stop law. He says they are willing to examine whether the recently introduced law needs adjustment.

The decision broadens last week’s four-party initiative into cross-party committee work. The protections and their timetable still have to be settled.

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