[D66] Sweden announces plans to deport up to 80,000 refugees

[J.N.]

[Van sociaaldemocratie naar sociaalfascisme, een kleine stap in deze 
tijden, ook in Zweden...]

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2016/01/29/swed-j29.html

Sweden announces plans to deport up to 80,000 refugees
By Martin Kreikenbaum
29 January 2016

The Swedish government has announced its intention to deport 80,000 
refugees whose asylum applications have been rejected in the coming 
months. The Social Democratic-Green coalition in Stockholm, which 
enforced stricter asylum laws and border controls last year, is pursuing 
a vicious policy of deterrence against refugees and transforming the 
country, which boasted of its liberal refugee policy for decades, into a 
police state.

The same day as these measures were announced, Human Rights Watch 
published a report sharply criticising the drift toward authoritarianism 
throughout Europe, which European governments have justified as a 
response to the migrant crisis.

Human Rights Watch executive director Kenneth Roth wrote that the 
arrival of refugees from the Middle East is “driving many Western 
governments to roll back human rights protections,” adding, “these 
backward steps threaten the rights of all” sections of the population, 
not just refugees.

This tendency is exemplified by the policies of the German government, 
which, despite Chancellor Angela Merkel’s proclamations last year of a 
“welcoming culture,” is in the midst of intensive preparations to 
further seal its country’s borders and establish “processing 
centres”—i.e. internment camps—for refuges.