Greta Thunberg Protests Against Sweden’s Plan to Deport Illegal Migrants

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THUNBERG: “The image people have of Sweden as a progressive country guided by solidarity and humanitarian values is long outdated and we urgently need to talk about some of the things happening here and put all the pressure we can the coming days. In Sweden, people who came here as children, grew up here and built their entire lives here, are now increasingly being deported, without their families, to countries they have no connection to and that are very much not safe for them to be in. And these young people did not do anything wrong. They followed the path given to them, and are especially children of labor migrants who, upon turning 18, now risk losing the right to stay here. And this is in light of Sweden becoming increasingly hostile and racist in its migration politics, like so, so many other parts of the world.”