According to the Tidö agreement, a duty must be introduced for public employees, such as teachers and healthcare workers, to report undocumented people to the police.
According to Minister of Justice Gunnar Strömmer, it is important to maintain a legally secure order of who can stay in the country and who must leave.
“Is difference”
But ahead of the 2018 election, it sounded partly different from Strömmer, who was then party secretary in the Moderates. He was then critical of an SD proposal to introduce a duty to report a neighbor who hides people who have had their asylum application rejected and called this “reporting legislation”.
In SVT’s 30 minutes, Strömmer says that he believes that the two proposals are designed very differently.
– Yes, I think so, there is a very big difference in principle and in practice between, on the one hand, citizens in general and, on the other hand, civil servants who are employed by the public sector, says Strömmer in the program and continues:
– If we are to be able to maintain an order in which people can get permission to stay in Sweden and have a reasonable chance of entering our society, then we also have to implement the legally secure decisions which mean that certain people have to leave the country.
To be investigated
The proposal on the reporting obligation for public employees has been met with criticism from teachers’ unions and healthcare workers, among others.
Gunnar Strömmer says that exactly who will be covered by the reporting obligation will be investigated, but he does not rule out that, for example, teachers will be covered.
– No, I do not, it is such a thing that must be included in this trial or investigation of how this is to be done.