The government has said it is working on a new bill with a so-called valve. The opposition parties want a faster stop to the expulsions. Now Åkesson wants the teenage expulsions to be paused immediately.
The aim has never been for 18-year-old girls who attend high school and live at home with their mother and father to be sent to a country that their parents came from, or that they themselves moved from when they were very young, Åkesson tells DN.
According to Åkesson, new legislation takes time and will not have an immediate effect.
Åkesson says a moratorium could be a solution to build on, but as recently as Tuesday the party voted against the Green Party's proposal for a moratorium, a kind of stop-gap law on teenage expulsions.
The reason, according to SD spokesman Ludvig Aspling, was that a moratorium would take much longer to develop than the bill the government is working on. He accused the opposition of political gamesmanship.
"This is something you do to be seen in the media," Aspling said on Tuesday.
Migration Minister Johan Forssell (M) has in turn called the stop law a "panic solution" and said it would likely take longer to come into force. The Green Party's migration policy spokesperson 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.
