Waking Up: Finland Plans to Boot out 20,000 Refugees

They should have thought through the consequences before they even accepted them. I guess better late than never to realize your mistakes.

According to PressTV, Finland is set to expel tens of thousands of the asylum seekers who arrived in the country last year amid the ongoing refugee crisis in Europe.

Paivi Nerg, Finnish Interior Ministry’s administrative director, announced that Helsinki expects to expel nearly 20,000 refugees out of the 32,000 it received in 2015. The official stressed that each application was being evaluated individually.

“In principle we speak of about two-thirds, meaning approximately 65 percent of the 32,000 will get a negative decision (to their asylum application),” said Nerg, adding, “In previous years around 60 percent (of applicants) received a negative decision but now we have somewhat tightened our criteria for Iraqis, Afghans and Somalis.”

Nerg further said at least two charter flights to deport Iraqis were planned within the following months.

Earlier in the day, Swedish Interior Minister Anders Ygeman said Stockholm intends to expel as many as 80,000 refugees whose applications for asylum have been rejected.

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