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Highly Qualified Immigrant Families Express Anger Over Sweden's Teenage Deportation Policies

Key Points
  • 15-year-old Daniella Cervantes was reportedly deported from Sweden despite her family being part of the highly qualified workforce Sweden seeks to attract.
  • Her father Manfred Cervantes expressed regret about moving to Sweden, stating they would never have come if they knew the outcome.
  • The case highlights growing anger among skilled immigrant families over Sweden's strict migration laws and teenage deportation policies.

Sweden's efforts to attract highly qualified workers are facing criticism as families of economists, engineers, and professors express growing anger over the country's strict migration laws and teenage deportations. According to a report in Svenska Dagbladet, 15-year-old Daniella Cervantes was deported from Sweden despite her family's professional background and integration efforts. " The case highlights tensions between Sweden's desire to attract skilled international workers and its enforcement of migration regulations.

After six months in Sweden, Daniella had decided she needed to learn Swedish perfectly to become Swedish, recognizing this wouldn't happen at her international school where classmates were multilingual and spoke fluent English. Meanwhile, Aftonbladet reported on another case involving 19-year-old Tabitha Katushabe, who faces deportation to Uganda without her family despite having lived in Sweden for three years.

Had I known how it would be, we would never have come.

Manfred Cervantes

reasonable and fair for all conscientious young people who have done the right thing, learned the language and integrated into society.

Johan Forsell, Migration Minister

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