The government and SD want to introduce a reporting obligation within public activities – to obtain information about people who are staying illegally in Sweden.
The bill has been criticized from several quarters and called the “indicator law”.
On Sunday, a demonstration against the proposal will be organized in central Stockholm.
Last week, Minister of Migration Maria Malmer Stenergard announced that the Tidöparties are going ahead with the proposal on compulsory notification. The bill is about public employees in their duties being obliged to alert the police and the Swedish Migration Agency if they come across people who are staying illegally in Sweden.
– It is an important step in the paradigm shift that the government is now implementing in migration policy, she said.
The resistance is great
The bill has been criticized from various quarters. Among other things, about 30 members of the European Parliament from the left political side issued an open letter to EU Commissioner Ylva Johansson, urging her to review the government’s attempts.
“Forcing public officials, such as teachers, health workers and social workers to report undocumented people to the police would be a violation of human rights, the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the European Union’s Charter of Fundamental Rights,” they write in the open letter.
On Sunday, a large demonstration will be held in central Stockholm against the proposal.
“The resistance is great. Unions, researchers and civil servants are protesting. Thousands of teachers, doctors and nurses have vowed to refuse to follow the law if it is introduced. This demonstration gathers everyone who wants to protest,” says the description of the demonstration on Facebook.
One of the people who is there to demonstrate against the proposal is Johanna Jaara Åstrand, the union president of Sweden’s Teachers.
– It is completely incompatible with teachers’ assignments and our professional ethics. It’s about putting the child’s best interests first, always. If so, there must be no doubt whatsoever. All students should know that teachers have one thing in mind, and that is the students’ best interest, she tells Åsa Stibner, TV4 Nyheternas reporter on the spot.