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Sweden rejects less than a quarter of asylum seekers
TheLocal.se ^ | 1 January 2017 14:17 CET+01:00 | TT/The Local

Posted on 01/01/2017 9:06:29 AM PST by Olog-hai

Sweden’s Migration Agency accepted 77 percent of the record 112,000 asylum claims it processed in 2016, it has revealed in its end of year figures.

The agency processed twice as many decisions in 2016 as it did in 2015, putting on track to clear the backlog built up during Europe’s refugee crisis.

Some 17,000 asylum seekers were registered as refugees, 47,000 were given a permit due to “alternative needs of protection”, and 5,880 withdrew their applications.

“We’re handling it,” the agency’s General Director Mikael Ribbenvik told Sweden’s TT newswire after issuing the figures in a press statement. “In the autumn we hit a peak of 14,000 to 15,000 cases a month. But we can’t keep up that pace and we don’t need to either. We were a bit behind in the autumn and needed to catch up.” …

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: dhimmitude; eurabia; eussr; hijrah; rapefugees; refujihadi; rop; sweden

1 posted on 01/01/2017 9:06:29 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Farewell Sweden. Hello swede-istan.


2 posted on 01/01/2017 9:10:28 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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To: Olog-hai

How To Become Slaves In Your Own Country


3 posted on 01/01/2017 9:13:47 AM PST by samtheman (I REALLY hope Trump reads FR)
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To: Olog-hai

Swedish Burka Team?


4 posted on 01/01/2017 9:20:11 AM PST by LydiaLong
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To: Olog-hai

They really do have a death wish.

National suicide is such an ugly thing to witness.


5 posted on 01/01/2017 9:22:45 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents)
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To: Olog-hai
Ragnar Lothbrok is spinning in his grave.

Where have all the Vikings gone?

6 posted on 01/01/2017 9:45:07 AM PST by Eagles6 (My weapons are lubricated by liberal tears.)
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To: Olog-hai

Suicidal blondes


7 posted on 01/01/2017 9:48:22 AM PST by The Fop (God Bless Donald Trump, Frank Sinatra, Joan Rivers, and the Fightin' Rat Pack Wing of the GOP)
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To: Olog-hai

And many of rejected 23% probably don’t leave either.


8 posted on 01/01/2017 9:58:08 AM PST by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: Menehune56

Obama likely accepted the rejected 23%.


9 posted on 01/01/2017 10:36:33 AM PST by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Olog-hai

Sweden is gone, and won’t even be recognizable in 5-6yrs.


10 posted on 01/01/2017 10:48:56 AM PST by Carriage Hill ( Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everybody stands around reloading.)
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