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Sweden’s Migration Minister Johan Forssell says that Europe needs to create a joint mechanism to deport Afghans with deportation orders back to Afghanistan.
He says that Afghans who have had their asylum applications rejected or who have committed crimes in Europe but lack identity documents are “more or less impossible” to deport as things are today.
The statements were made in connection with an informal meeting of EU justice and home affairs ministers in Cyprus.
Forssell pointed out that many Afghans lack both passports and other travel documents, preventing their deportations.
He argues that the EU should act on a technical level to issue documents that would enable their return to Afghanistan:
“If you come to Europe and commit crimes, you have chosen not to be part of our society. Then we must do everything we can to ensure that you are deported,” the Swedish minister stated.
Forssell says that more than half of Afghan asylum applications are rejected and that those people have to be returned.
He says there should be joint EU solutions, such as gathering people to be deported from several member states and sending them back on chartered flights.
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