The Green Party (MP) is behind the initiative for a moratorium, a temporary stopgap law, which the other opposition parties support. The aim is to immediately stop deportations of teenagers and young adults “with strong ties to Sweden” until a long-term solution is reached.
On Tuesday, however, the initiative was voted down in the Riksdag's Social Insurance Committee, as none of the government parties – M, KD and L – nor SD supported it.
Possible higher age limit
I am disappointed, especially because we are not getting any answers about when the government will come up with its solution and time is ticking, there are already young people who have been expelled from Sweden in the last week, says the Green Party's migration policy spokesperson, Annika Hirvonen.
The government also wants to find a solution and is looking at a proposal for an investigation that came out last fall. The proposal is currently being negotiated between the government and the SD.
"There is work underway now to address exactly the same problem. We may come up with a solution," says SD's Ludvig Aspling.
The Tidö parties are looking at, among other things, raising the age limit for when the affected group should have their own reasons to stay in Sweden from the current age of 18.
"It's about being able to belong to the family community later in life without having to have your own reasons," says committee chairman Viktor Wärnick (M).
Minister: Panic solution
The committee chairman calls the opposition's initiative a political game.
Migration Minister Johan Forssell (M) has in turn called the stop law a "panic solution" and stated that it would likely take longer to get into place. Annika Hirvonen has also assessed that a stop law could be introduced in a couple of weeks, depending on how quickly the work in the Government Offices progresses.
The issue of teenage deportations concerns young people whose parents have the right to be in Sweden, but who themselves do not meet the requirements for their own residence permit when they turn 18.
