The teenage deportations have also outraged the business community. Business owners have testified that their employees are forced to leave Sweden when their children are deported.
And raising the age from 18 to 21, so that young people do not risk leaving the country even though their parents are allowed to stay, is not enough:
"Then the risk remains that highly qualified people will leave Sweden to avoid splitting up the family," write Teknikföretagen CEO Pia Sandvik and Sveriges Ingenjörer chair Ulrika Lindstrand in a debate article in Dagens industri.
They both think that the policy does not align well with the government's desire to attract in-demand labor to Sweden.
"It is an unfortunate effect that is in direct contradiction to the government's ambition to make Sweden more attractive for highly qualified workers," they write.
