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Old Dec 8, 2015, 2:55 am
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I'm all for helping out bonafide refugees and for countries living up to their legal obligations related to delivering refuge to refugees/asylum seekers (even after they evacuate the immediate zone of trouble), but it was messed up early on by not beefing up regular channels to manage the situation. And the border control "fixes" are a joke too.

I'm really curious what the border control checking police in Sweden are doing when encountering people without ID on hand who have boarded the train in Sweden. This would get to the question of what legal authority there is for conducting a border control check on people who start their journey in Sweden and never left Swedish territory during the journey. We know that "these are the rules/orders" don't have a lot less room for fudging around when dealing with code-based legal systems.

The way the police could sort of better handle this is to create a hold space for those who come onto the train platform at Hyllie without having come in on the train being checked. But that isn't how they are doing it.

This is a step backwards in better integrating the Oresund region and in making the area economically stronger. And guess who it hurts more. The country mandating the checks between Denmark and Sweden.

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