Ribbenvik admits: All asylum seekers are illegal immigrants

Published 1 April 2024 at 14.03

Domestic. It is not possible to get asylum in Sweden without getting to the country illegally – and if the laws and systems worked, asylum immigration “would have been zero”. That's what Mikael Ribbenvik Cassar, the Migration Agency's former director general, tells Morgonpasset in P3.

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Mikael Ribbenvik Cassar had to leave his post as head of the Migration Agency last year – something he last week accused the Sweden Democrats of being behind.

However, the left-wing bureaucrat does not have to pay lip service to it. The government has seen to it that he got a new top job as deputy head of the EU's asylum agency:

The government has arranged EU top job for Ribbenvik:

The left-wing bureaucrat becomes deputy head of the EU's asylum agency.

"So Ribbenvik has not been fired – this is a real promotion." https://t.co/4EHtaNwE6W

— Fria Tider (@friatider) March 27, 2024

On Monday, Ribbenvik was interviewed by Morgonpasset in P3 and talked about his warm commitment to so-called refugees from the third world.

He also explained to the uninitiated what asylum immigration really means, something that he also addresses in a new book with titled “Migration: Through my eyes”.

– You have to get here. I write something in the book that you probably won't find in any course literature, but if all laws and systems had worked – international, European and Swedish – there would have been zero asylum seekers every year. All laws are designed so that nobody can get here, says Ribbenvik to Morgonpasset.

– Nobody can get here legally. You have to hike over a mountain, float across the Mediterranean or illegally cross a border somewhere.

According to the Dublin Regulation, an asylum application must be tried in the first EU country to which an immigrant reaches. Despite that, Sweden has throughout the years consistently granted asylum to people who, by definition, made it through a number of member states to come to Sweden.

Mikael Ribbenvik already made a decision in 2012, then as head of justice at the Migration Agency, that all Syrians who came to Sweden illegally would automatically be allowed to stay forever (get a permanent residence permit). It led to a sharp increase in illegal Arab immigration, which culminated in the asylum chaos of 2015.

– The decision itself was simple because we have clear legislation. Those who need protection should be protected, Ribbenvik told SVT in 2014.

At the same time, he raged against those who believed there should be a limit to how many asylum seekers Sweden could accept:

< p>– I can challenge the person who says there must be a ceiling. If we reach this ceiling in October and the next family of children that comes will have to go back to Syria because we have reached a ceiling. Then I would challenge that person to take that girl or boy by the hand and go to Aleppo or Homs and drop them off there. I think that's enough as an argument.