– We demand an immediate freeze on these deportations until the legal situation is clarified and the government has presented how they intend to resolve this issue, Ida Karkiainen (S), migration policy spokesperson, tells Dagens Nyheter.
This concerns cases where young people who grew up in Sweden are threatened with deportation when they turn 18. This has happened since the government abolished the possibility of exceptions for particularly painful cases - a valve - in connection with extensions of residence permits. S supported the change at the time, but is now demanding that the government stop the deportations immediately.
“Is wrong”
"I think everyone with common sense realizes that this is wrong," Ida Karkiainen (S) says to DN.
Earlier this week, the Green Party (MP) and the Left Party (V) came forward with a committee initiative to change the law so that young adults who grew up in Sweden would be allowed to stay. The Center Party also later supported the initiative.
The Social Democrats (S) chose not to join, but wanted to wait for the government to act. According to party leader Magdalena Andersson, the government has “promised” to present a solution in the spring, and if so, they are prepared to cooperate on it.
No promises
But Migration Minister Johan Forssell has said that no promises have been made.
"We have asked for a proposal for a so-called valve and we are currently preparing it," he said on Friday.
However, the Liberals will "act to ensure that the government reviews the issue of a valve - to ensure that migration law decisions are reasonable," writes the L leader and Minister of Education and Integration Simona Mohamsson on X today.
