2025 report on the application of the Act on Special Control of Certain Foreigners
Translated from Swedish by AI; the translation may contain errors. The Swedish text is the original.
Summary AI, written in advance
The Sweden Democrats consider that the law on special control of certain foreigners is necessary to strengthen security by restricting the lives of dangerous foreigners and deporting persons who can contribute to serious crimes or terrorism 1. The party argues that public scrutiny of information from the Security Service would damage the authority's ability and credibility 1. SD wants to ramp up the work of deporting foreign security threats 1. The party criticizes the Left Party for voting against tightenings of the law and argues that their objections would mean that Sweden does less against extremism 1.
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Adam Marttinen (SD)
Madam Speaker! We have now come to the 2025 report on the application of the Act on Special Control of Certain Foreigners. It may not be the content of the report itself that invites a speech this late Tuesday evening, but rather that the Left Party, through its special statement, voices traditional objections to the Act as such.
The law gives judicial authorities an opportunity to strengthen security in our country by limiting the presence in Sweden of dangerous foreigners and by deporting foreigners who are, for example, feared to commit or participate in serious crimes, for example, terrorist crimes.
We can observe that only a few decisions are made annually through this law and that most deportations from our country occur as a result of crimes that are processed in the usual way in court. But when foreigners are deported before they commit serious crimes, with the support of the Act on Special Control of Certain Foreigners, it often occurs with the support of information that the Security Service has obtained in various ways.
That these pieces of information cannot be disclosed publicly in the same way as information in criminal cases in court is due to the fact that it would expose how the Swedish Security Service (Säkerhetspolisen) operates. It would seriously damage the Swedish Security Service's future ability, and not least, it would damage the credibility in relation to comparable parties who share information with the Swedish Security Service.
So this is what Vänsterpartiet wants: that all information presented to the detriment of a foreign security threat should be laid on the table with more or less unlimited public access.
It would, as said, have as a direct consequence that Sweden's ability to handle serious security threats would be damaged. The likely effect would probably be that no foreigner who constitutes a security threat would be deported, at least not before a serious crime has occurred.
Unfortunately, we in Sweden have experienced what foreign terror threats are capable of doing to harm our country. For the Sweden Democrats, certain rule of law aspects linked to a few foreigners in extremist environments weigh a little less than the terrible consequences that a failed security effort can entail.
If one were to follow the Left Party's objections to the law, it would mean that Sweden would do less in the work against extremism and terror threats.
Madam Speaker! The Sweden Democrats, on the contrary, want to ramp up the work of deporting foreign security threats, and there is a completed investigation that gives us the opportunity to do so. the Left Party, which voted against the latest tightenings of the Act on Special Control of Certain Foreigners, will likely have some objections to an even more offensive law.
Madam Speaker! Should the Left Party also be part of a future S government, there is a great risk that necessary tightenings will be completely omitted.
For the Sweden Democrats, it has always been completely incomprehensible that red-green governments have kept the border wide open for foreign extremists who want to come to Sweden. Through the Sweden Democrats' cooperation with the government, that is now over, and it is time to step up the work with fully justified deportations.
The question, Madam Speaker, that the voters will face in an upcoming election is whether we have too many or if we have too few foreign security threats in our country. If one believes that there are too few, one can vote for any party in Magdalena Andersson's government alternative. If one, on the other hand, believes that there are too many, one is entirely correct in voting for the Sverigedemokraterna.
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.