Leader: Our votes make a difference - now the teenage deportations are stopped

It was a welcome message that the Center Party, the Green Party, the Social Democrats and the Left Party delivered on Tuesday: The four, who after the election thus have a majority in the Riksdag, agree to stop the deportations of teenagers as quickly as possible.

The parties' representatives in the social security committee came out with a joint proposal for a moratorium on both decisions and executions of deportations. This is while waiting for a new law to be drawn up which means that these young people can permanently stay with their families in Sweden.

As early as Tuesday, a first decision is to be made in the committee, but after that the process is more unclear. The Riksdag can make laws itself, but this is unusual. The most reasonable thing would of course be if the transitional government respects the new parliamentary majority and makes a proposal itself.

In essence, all young people whose parents have a residence permit in Sweden must be covered. This also applies to those who have already received a deportation order, and unlike the Tidö government's attempt to remove the issue from the election campaign, it is not just a question of postponing the deportations until those concerned turn 22.

Because the deportations have continued, even after the Tidö parties were finally forced to back down due to public opinion last spring

Because the deportations have continued, even after the Tidö parties were finally forced to back down in the spring because of the broad opinion that does not think that teenagers and young adults should be torn away from their parents and siblings and sent away alone to countries where they may not even know the language.

Just a couple of weeks ago, a planned deportation of 22-year-old twins Aliya and Najib to Somalia was stopped after the pilot refused to take them on board. In mid-August, 19-year-old Doniyor – who had lived with his family in Sweden since he was 13 and had one year left in the automotive engineering program at high school – was deported alone to Uzbekistan.

It is often said that politics today is only about symbolic issues. Cynics claim that all politicians say the same things and that it doesn't matter what you vote for or who wins. Here we now see a concrete example of that not being true.

Since the election, we have a new majority in the Riksdag and regardless of what the next government looks like, it will not be dependent on the Sweden Democrats. And then you can prevent families from splitting up as soon as the children are old enough to take their first steps into adulthood. Suddenly it becomes possible again with ordinary human decency and humanism.

Just like all the people who were upset about the teenage expulsions all the time requested.

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