2024 report on the application of the Act on Special Control of Certain Foreign Nationals
Translated from Swedish by AI; the translation may contain errors. The Swedish text is the original.
Summary AI, written in advance
The debate concerns the 2024 report on the application of the Act on Special Control of Certain Foreigners, which aims to deport foreigners who pose a threat to national security 1. SD considers the law to be legitimate and provides sufficient democratic control 1. SD argues that violent Islamism is the greatest threat to Sweden due to previous governments' mass immigration 1. SD believes that too few foreigners are deported with the support of the law 1. SD criticizes Vänsterpartiet for wanting to abolish the law and argues that their stance constitutes a threat to Sweden's ability to handle security threats 1.
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Adam Marttinen (SD)
Madam Speaker! Initially, I just want to comment on the speaking list. I am the sole debater in this debate. Despite the fact that I have warned Vänsterpartiet that I will focus my attention on them somewhat in the debate, they have chosen not to participate.
We are debating the report 2024's account of the application of the Act on Special Control of Certain Foreigners. For those listening to the debate, I can say that this law has been around for a few years and aims to ensure that we can deport foreigners who in one way or another pose a threat to the state's security, even though these have not been prosecuted or convicted of any crime.
Historically, it may have mostly been about left-wing extremists or ethnic extremists. Today, according to the Swedish Security Service, it is primarily right-wing and especially Islamist environments that constitute the greatest violence-seeking threats to our country.
That violent Islamism constitutes the single greatest threat in Sweden is, of course, due to the mass immigration that previous governments were responsible for. The Social Democrats, in particular, stand out with a dominant hold on power over the last 30 years. It should also be said that the Social Democrats in opposition have had no objections to the massive asylum and family immigration that bourgeois governments deliberately subjected our country to. It is mainly through that immigration that violent Islamists have been able to enter our country, without control and without any requirements whatsoever. The vast majority, but not all, have also been able to become Swedish citizens.
Madam Speaker! Within the violence-promoting Islamist environment, it is the Islamic State, also called Daish, that has been leading at least for the last ten years. Just like other Islamist groupings, the Islamic State aims to islamize our societies, with terrorist attacks as a legitimate method of work.
In a report from the Security Service in 2017, we were informed that there were then a total of approximately 3,000 violent extremists in our country, of which right-wing and left-wing extremists constituted approximately 1,000 individuals. Within the violent Islamist environment, there were then approximately 2,000 individuals. The violent Islamist environment was also described as the fastest-growing in our country.
The years after 2017, however, the Swedish Security Service has not wanted to disclose any specific figures for how these environments have developed in numbers. But not wanting to say anything still says something. Probably we have tens of thousands of violence-seeking extremists in Sweden, which perhaps the public celebrations on Sweden's streets after Hamas's terror attack against Israel in 2023 give a hint about.
Regardless of how these environments have developed, thousands of individuals are more than enough for a small country like Sweden. The Act on Special Control of Certain Foreigners is a legitimate law in this context, which aims at precisely foreigners within these environments. The report that is submitted to the Riksdag annually is as detailed as one can request, and in my opinion, it gives the law sufficient democratic control and legitimacy.
There are, however, political forces in the Swedish Riksdag, in Magdalena Andersson's government base, who believe that foreign security threats could face an excessively insecure legal treatment if they are deported with the support of that law.
Vänsterpartiet has over the years had strong objections to the existence of the law, and they have also raised demands to abolish the law. They have also wanted to change the law so that the Security Service's work would be exposed in a way that would jeopardize the entire Security Service's ability to handle and counter serious threats to our country.
In principle, one can understand the objection that the person to be deported should also be able to take part in and be able to counter the grounds that form the basis for a deportation decision. But in practice, I believe everyone understands that full protection for Swedish interests and Swedish lives must also be based on intelligence that cannot always be exposed in a public court.
Madam Speaker! This law is used, according to the report, in a few cases per year where deportation is judged to be an appropriate measure. And hand on heart, do we have too many or too few foreigners in our country with poor values and anti-Swedish motives? I believe that the vast majority of Swedes judge and have confidence that the Security Service in these individual cases acts in a well-balanced manner, on good grounds and in the best interests of Sweden.
Is it something that this account shows is it, in my opinion, that far too few foreigners are deported with the support of this law. There should have been more, but it is also part of the advantage of this law. It is a tool for the Security Service to use from a holistic perspective where the police cannot and should not know all parts.
With this said, I still want to emphasize that the Left Party's specific statement indicates a danger in letting socialists approach power. They always believe that the political power knows best, and they want control over exactly everything and to have their fingers in every jar at the same time. A government that gives influence to the Left Party clearly constitutes a threat to Sweden's ability to handle serious security threats.
Can we really rule out that Vänsterpartiet would not raise their demand against Magdalena Andersson to abolish this law, which makes it possible to deport foreign security threats? Why else would they criticize the law? I take Vänsterpartiet's words seriously, and I think more people should do so who want to safeguard the possibility of effectively deporting foreign security threats.
2024 report on the application of the Act on Special Control of Certain Foreigners
Madam Speaker! When we have a government in place that purposefully and methodically works to realize plain common sense to strengthen security in our country, we may need to be reminded of what the alternative to the left would mean. Vänsterpartiet's specific statement in this report constitutes only part of a bottomless failure that Magdalena Andersson as Prime Minister would mean for our country.
The deliberation was hereby concluded.
Source: The Swedish Parliament. The speeches come from the open data of the Riksdag, translated into English by AI, which may contain errors.