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As of early December, 12,000 had so far applied for asylum in Sweden, which is about half of the Swedish Immigration Board’s forecast at the beginning of the year.
At the same time, there is an intense debate on the new Migration Law.
The director general of the Swedish Migration Agency, Mikael Ribbenvik, wants to see a more fact-based debate on migration.
– It awakens many emotions, various immigration issues, and I have nothing against it. I think it’s good when people get involved and have an idea, an opinion on such an important topic, he says in Ekot’s P1 interview on Saturday.
But he thinks it is problematic when individual politicians go into individual cases, and “seems to be completely blind to the legislation that we have.”
Mikael Ribbenvik: “Constitutional error”
When asked by the host what facts and knowledge are missing, Ribbenvik replies that it is about the consequences of the law.
– If there are unintended consequences, you must change the law. And go on Facebook groups and demonstrate or speak out in the local newspaper as a politician about issues that the authorities handle in accordance with the legislation, I think it is wrong, and when the parliamentarians do it, I think it is also constitutionally wrong, he says Mikael Ribbenvik on the radio.
He thinks that there are two major misunderstandings about the Swedish migration debate. Partly because the Swedish Migration Agency is too harsh “and does not follow international law”, partly because “they let anyone who knocks on the door in.”
