80,000 migrants face expulsion from Sweden

The Swedish interior minister, Anders Ygemen has revealed that as many as 80,000 failed asylum-seekers face expulsion from the Scandinavian country.‎

Ygemen also informed that in order to make the repatriation smooth, a chartered aircraft would be provided to deport expelled migrants over several years.

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“We are talking about 60,000 people but the number could climb to 80,000,” Swedish media quoted him as saying.

Reports say some 163,000 migrants applied for asylum in Sweden in 2015, the highest per capita number all over Europe.

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