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You can temporarily live in the emergency room in Sundsvall after the decision of the Swedish Immigration Board.
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Ahmad, 23, has a cerebral palsy injury, epilepsy, cannot speak or eat alone, and needs 24-hour care.
But after an expulsion decision from the Swedish Migration Agency, he is now homeless and without money for food and medicine.
– I can’t understand why they do this, says Anna Berggren, good man for Ahmad.
Ahmad Alrashki, 23, is currently hospitalized at Sundsvall Hospital. Not because you need urgent hospital care. But because the Swedish Immigration Board withdrew his LMA card and forced him to move out of his residence five days in advance, which Sundsvalls Tidning was the first to report.
– The accommodation staff decided to take Ahmad to the emergency room. He was the most humane because he needs 24-hour care and supervision, says Anna Berggren, who has been a good man to Ahmad for two years.
“I saw your concerns”
Ahmad has several diagnoses: a cerebral palsy injury, epilepsy and is in a wheelchair. He cannot eat or go to the bathroom without help, and cannot manage on his own.
He can’t speak and put his feelings into words, but Anna saw how he felt when they took him out of his house and left him in the hospital.
– I saw him when he was sitting with his little fluffy monkey in his arms in the wheelchair outside the hospital. And I saw his anxiety in his eyes. It didn’t feel good at all, he says.
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Ahmad Alrashki, 23 years old.
The family was deported last year.
Ahmad came to Sweden from Iraq in the fall of 2015 and applied for asylum with his family. However, since 2018 he has been living in a residence, as he needs intensive care and 24-hour care.
He, as well as the family, had their asylum applications rejected and last fall, after the case was appealed to the highest court, it was clear that they would be deported.
They were taken to the return unit of the Swedish Migration Agency in Uppsala, but after a few weeks Anna received a call from the authority saying that it had been decided to send Ahmad back to Sundsvall. She had not received the care she needed then and her health had deteriorated.
Come back voluntarily
But the expulsion decision against Ahmad stood and, through her good husband Anna, agreed in June to voluntarily return to Iraq.
After that, they didn’t hear from the Swedish Immigration Board until the end of August. The agency then announced a few days in advance that Ahmad would be getting rid of his LMA card, that he would be forced to move out of his house and that they would withdraw money for food and medicine.
It does not matter that you agree to be deported.
– As the regulation is designed, it is the case that Ahmad loses the right to housing and assistance, even though he contributes to the return. It is therefore important that we now work together so that Ahmad achieves the best possible performance, says Guna Graufelds from the Swedish Migration Board to Sundsvalls Tidning.
Has ended up in government limbo
But according to the Sundsvall municipality, Ahmad must have a residence permit to qualify for help from social services, Sundsvalls Tidning is told.
– He stays in the hospital for the weekend and gets his medication there. After the weekend, I don’t know what will happen. She’s finished between the chairs, says Anna Berggren.
Håkan Norberg, Sundsvall Municipality Deputy Director of Operations, tells P4 Västernorrland that they are in close dialogue with the Swedish Immigration Board and that Ahmad’s situation could be resolved soon.
Anna Berggren does not know when Ahmad’s expulsion will take place.
– The Swedish Migration Agency has not contacted me with any plan for this.
What do you think his life in Iraq would be like if he was deported?
– I worry about how he will manage it, if he will manage it. But I really haven’t thought about it that much because it feels so unreasonable for it to happen.
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