Sweden planning raids on asylum seekers

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Euro|Topics relaunched their website during 2016. Features published before that date are still available via an archive website (see related url hyperlinks0Sweden's red-green governing coalition was planning to have the police raid workplaces in a bid to track down rejected asylum seekers who have gone underground in the autumn of 2016. The step would strengthen people's trust in the legal system, some commentators believed. Others criticised the Green Party's change of stance as inhumane.

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http://archiv.eurotopics.net/en/home/presseschau/aktuell.html http://archiv.eurotopics.net/en/home/presseschau/aktuell.html

ESO: Background information: Swedish crackdown targets migrant families http://www.europeansources.info/record/swedish-crackdown-targets-migrant-families/

The Independent, 26.08.16: Sweden sees record numbers of asylum seekers withdraw applications and leave http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/refugee-crisis-asylum-seekers-sweden-applications-withdrawn-record-numbers-a7209231.html

The Local.se, 24.08.16: Asylum seekers leaving Sweden in record numbers http://www.thelocal.se/20160824/record-number-of-asylum-seekers-voluntarily-leave-sweden

The Local.se, 26.09.16: Why Sweden could deport hundreds of refugee children https://www.thelocal.se/20160926/why-sweden-could-deport-hundreds-of-lone-refugee-children

Sweden: Migrationsverket [Migration Agency] http://www.migrationsverket.se/English/Startpage.html

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