The lawlessness of expelled migrant workers: (S) under pressure from SD and LO?

Digital inclusion Skills supply

Many have been rightly outraged by the recent high-profile deportation of Tayyab Shabab, a skilled software developer, who was hit very hard by a trivial and long-compensated mistake regarding pension contributions from a former employer. However, the case is only the tip of an iceberg of legal uncertainty for migrant workers in Sweden. This is evident not least from the independent organization Centrum för rättvisa's review of 450 ongoing and completed deportation cases from the Swedish Migration Agency. The report shows that many of the deportation cases are based on trivial errors and mistakes, with weak or non-existent legal support. The short summary, with the three typical cases of deportation situations, is as easy to read as it is upsetting. Is this a tragic consequence of the government being pressured by both SD and LO?

The issue of integration is a real headache for the government, and Minister of Employment Ylva Johansson (S) is undoubtedly struggling, with mixed success, to find different measures to integrate the many new arrivals. So why is it that the leading political decision-makers are so silent about the Migration Agency's inhumane poaching against the integration that actually works?

It all raises nasty thoughts about what might be the driving forces behind the policies we now see. Here are some hypothetical ideas that one sincerely hopes are not true:

  • "LO doesn't like labor immigration, so it needs to be limited no matter what."
  • "The more we facilitate immigration for third countries, the more people will vote for SD."
  • "There is so much shenanigans with berry picking, simple service jobs, etc., that it is necessary to be super-zealous. The fact that even honestly working IT professionals are left out of the equation can be seen as a pawn in this context."
  • "These IT professionals are just luxury workers anyway, they can find jobs elsewhere even if they are deported."
  • "OK, so they may not be luxury travelers, but their clients are all IT companies and other business people who are hard to feel sorry for."

The further down the list, the more Jante. Besides the fact that what is happening now means personal tragedies for honest working labor immigrants and people in demand on the labor market and their families, it is a disaster for Sweden as a leading, talent-attracting IT nation. If it is good-ol' Jante that asserts itself, it is at a VERY high price, both personally and socio-economically. So we don't want, or need, that in our country, do we?

PS. "But the Migration Agency is an independent authority, we cannot control how they make their decisions." Right? As if the officials at the Migration Agency, or other authorities, were independent of the political winds.