The Norwegian government wants to tighten the country’s asylum and migration policy and introduce a nödparagraf that enables the Norwegian police to directly reject asylum-seekers at the Swedish-Norwegian border, reports Swedish Radio Echo.
– it is to take the height of it can come extreme situations, says Norway’s immigration and Migration Sylvi Listhaug (FRP) to Swedish Radio echo.
Nödparagrafen said to be part of a 40-point program for a tighter immigration policy that the Norwegian government is in the process of pushing through and means according echo to the Norwegian police in some cases be able to reject asylum seekers directly at the Swedish-Norwegian border.
According Listhaug it is “a rule we hope we never use” and something that is only in order to be on the safe side.
Norway took last year received about 30 000 asylum seekers while Sweden received over 160 000.
According to echo has Sylvi Listhaug already received tremendous criticism for the 40-point program from several commentators. Even the UN refugee agency UNHCR said to have struck down several provisions, including what is described as a disruption to family reunification.
No comments:
Post a Comment