This weekend is national action days for more humane migration policies in Sweden. It’s been downhill for a long time, men especially now with the current right-wing government.
Today, in a few hours, there’s a manifestation in Malmö, at Trianeln:
(someone made a graffiti based on my logo for För En Human Migrationspolitik)
Also, last Monday, the LIBE Committee, the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, passed a bill that takes the hunt for undocumented migrants to a whole new level.
If this bill passes, we will basically have ICE in Europe as well, and I don’t know about other countries, but I’m pretty sure our government will be very enthusiastic about it.
The Parliament will vote on the proposal this week. If it passes, methods will be adopted such as raids in private homes (and offices, shelters) and in public places (train stations, buses, airports, roads) in the hunt for undocumented migrants
The proposal also includes increased surveillance and collection/sharing of personal/biometric data, report obligation for public agencies (like Sweden’s snitch law from 2024) and racial profiling.
We’ve seen where this leads. ICE has been around for decades, but this proposal feels more like their recent escalation under Trump, where they’ve shot and killed many more than just the few white people who made the biggest headlines, and others have simply disappered after being sent to the US concentration camps.
We already have Frontex and the detention centres. That’s bad enough, we should go in the opposite direction, not take after the nation that was the inspiration for the Nazi segregation policies.
The above information about LIBE’s proposal comes from Civil Rights Defenders.