Published 2 May 2024 at 12.59
Domestic. The government has today decided to commission a special investigator to review the regulations on deportation due to crime.
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The purpose is according to government to create stricter regulations that enable “significantly more” deportations of criminal foreigners.
The news was presented at a press conference on Thursday.
– Far too few foreigners who commit crimes are deported from Sweden. Crime in the gang criminal environment is a growing and very large problem. It is important to create better opportunities than today for deportation in the event of such crime, but also when foreigners commit crimes in other contexts. The investigation that is now being added is part of the paradigm shift that the government is carrying out in the area of migration, says Migration Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard (M).
The number of judgments with decisions on deportation in relation to the total number of judgments against foreigners is at “a very low level,” states the government.
Only 4.4 percent of foreigners convicted of crimes are sentenced to deportation.
The assignment includes, among other things, reviewing how the regulations can be tightened so that crimes become grounds for deportation to a greater extent than today. It must also be investigated how the regulations should be designed so that no more consideration is given to a foreigner's connection to Sweden than is required according to international commitments.
Furthermore, the investigator must review how the regulations on the length of the re-entry ban can be tightened so that the bans become longer, and that re-entry bans without a time limit – to the greatest extent possible – can be announced in more cases than today.
The investigator is also tasked with reviewing, among other things, how prosecutors can be given an obligation to demand deportation when foreigners are charged with a crime and how the penalty scale can be increased for the crime of staying in the country even though, according to an executed decision on deportation on the grounds of a crime, one does not have the right to return to Sweden.
The chief prosecutor and head of chambers Ola Sjöstrand is appointed as special investigator.
The assignment must be reported no later than May 15, 2025.