SD drops the requirement – ​​care, school and social services do not have to report illegal immigrants

Published 26 November 2024 at 14.40

Domestic. The Tidö parties' promised proposal that staff at schools, care and social services should be forced to report illegal immigrants will not be implemented, the government announces. The Sweden Democrats say they are “very satisfied” with the settlement.

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“Municipalities and authorities must inform the Migration Agency and the Police Authority when they come into contact with persons staying in Sweden without a permit,” said the Tidö agreement, which quickly led to protests from the left against the upcoming “indication law”.

The left was particularly critical of the proposal to include care, school and social services in the legislation, as it could deter illegal immigrants from, for example, going on social benefits.

However, now the critics are getting what they want – both the school, healthcare and social services are exempt from the requirement to report illegals.

Party leader Richard Jomshof welcomes the settlement and claims that terrorist Rakhmat Akilov “probably” could have been stopped even if the school, healthcare and social services had been exempted from the regulations.

“With a functioning duty of information, he probably could have been deported from the country earlier,” writes Jomshof on X.

In Ekot, Ludvig Aspling, the SD's migration policy spokesperson, claims that the SD has received something else – it is unclear what – in exchange for canceling the agreement on the information obligation. According to him, it is a secret what the SD voters have received in return.

– We do not do that type of negotiation in public, but we can say this much that we are satisfied with the outcome, he tells Ekot.

It will now only be the Employment Agency, the Swedish Enforcement Agency, the Swedish Social Insurance Agency, the Pensions Agency, the Prison Service and the Tax Agency that will be subject to the duty to provide information. Authorities that either do not deal with illegal immigrants or – as in the case of the Correctional Service – only have already known information to contribute.

The Liberals are, as one might have expected, very happy with the agreement.

– I am happy for all the people who work in schools, healthcare, social services and libraries, says party leader Johan Pehrsson.

The obligation to provide information is the last of a series of election promises made by the Tidö parties agreed on but then chose to leave.

Since taking office, the Tidö government has, among other things, doubled the Equality Authority, given 133,000 immigrants Swedish citizenship and continued to pay aid to countries that refuse to accept expelled citizens, despite the parties promising to down the Equality Authority, grant citizenship at the “EU minimum level” and stop aid to countries that do not receive their own citizen.