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Sweden’s parliament passed a law on Monday allowing authorities to revoke immigrants’ residency permits based on bad behaviour, ​such as having unpaid debts, doing undeclared work or ‌links to extremist organisations.

The law, which covers pending permits but also retroactively already granted permits, is part of a wider tightening of immigration ​rules by the right-wing government and its support party, ​the nationalist Sweden Democrats, ahead of a parliamentary election ⁠in September.

The law has been criticised by the opposition and ​human rights advocacy groups as arbitrary because decisions would be taken ​on behaviour that has not been deemed criminal.

  • cheese_greater@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1111·
    14 hours ago

    Can I ask you a genuinely heartfelt and good-faith question?

    How is it fair when someone shitty is allowed entry who ends up hurting civilians but civilians are expected to suck it up

    How do you actually fix that without acting prophalactically, even its seen to be unfair or prematuew?

    • OccamsTeapot@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      222·
      14 hours ago

      How is it fair when someone shitty is allowed entry who ends up hurting civilians but civilians are expected to suck it up

      Civilians are expected to suck it up? Why? This would only be true if it’s not illegal. If it truly hurts civilians, why not make it illegal instead?

      It is fair because if a Swedish citizen did something that “hurts civilians” but is not illegal, the victims would also be “expected to suck it up.”

      Making some things only punishable if you aren’t Swedish is exactly what you would expect from the fascists in SD. Not really something to aspire to if you’re a sane, caring individual. It is the definition of unfair.

      • Ice@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        3 hours ago

        Examples of things that could become justification for a cancelled residence permit include:

        • Repeated traffic offences

        • Unpaid fines/debts to the government (basically once they go to the national collections agency, this takes 3+ months)

        • Associating with terrorist organizations and/or organized crime

        • Being a threat to national security, for instance via association with a foreign power known to be conducting sabotage/hostile interference (ex. Russia, Iran, China)

        • Welfare fraud

        • Threatening public workers (including emergency personel, healthcare workers and government officials)