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Sweden passes 'good behaviour' law to kick out misbehaving immigrants (www.reuters.com)

submitted 5 days ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world

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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.

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[–] OccamsTeapot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 5 days ago (3 children)

The law does not specify what types of behaviours ⁠are deemed unacceptable but the government has mentioned unpaid debts, not paying taxes, criminality and links to extremist organisations.

[–] Headofthebored@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

Definitions of "criminality" and "extremist organizations" subject to change without notice, of course.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 3 points 5 days ago

According to my state's written down rules, there's a void for vagueness doctrine that's written down. In practice, though...ay yi yi

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Ah, then it's definitely a bad law. (I'm on a limited connection and loading pages is very slow, so I hadn't read the article.)

I'd really appreciate it if articles made a point of actually linking to the damn law, but in this case I guess it would be in Swedish.

[–] OccamsTeapot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 days ago

Yeah they should link to it anyway!

And yes, this is a bad law. Rushed in a few months before an election by a right-wing coalition including the fascist SD. Things went badly so now they're throwing scraps to the frothing racists in their base in a desperate attempt to maintain power. They don't care if it's a good law, it's chum for dumbasses.