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Sweden to deport migrants not following ‘honest living’ (www.ctvnews.ca)
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[–] Hapankaali@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

What purpose would deportation of a citizen serve?

Presumably the same purpose (if any) the deportation of a noncitizen would serve.

One of the defining things about citizenship is the right to live in the place you have citizenship. Typically countries cannot leave persons stateless so deportation would be pointless, at most they pay for an air fare back, assuming there’s somewhere you can deport them to.

You’re right, fines should be levied equally if that’s the appropriate punishment. Putting someone in jail is expensive, it would seem counter to the point if the punishment for “abusing the system” was to further extract funds from the system to pay for someone’s housing and food would it not?

So why not take away those rights of citizens, if deportation is so beneficial?

[–] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 1 points 25 minutes ago

Presumably the same purpose (if any) the deportation of a noncitizen would serve.

Well, no, because citizens have the right to reside, non citizens don't. As mentioned previously citizen can just rock up to the border and re-enter.

So why not take away those rights of citizens,

Take away citizenship rights? That would create a stateless person. Even if we ignore the fact most countries can't or won't do that you've now got a scenario where the person you want to deport has no right to reside anywhere.

So when you show up with a plane full of ex Swedes at some airport the receiving country will go "oh those people have no right to be here, entry denied." At which point you can either take them back to Sweden or leave them on the runway. I'd imagine it wouldn't take long for most countries to deny entry to any transport leaving Sweden.

if deportation is so beneficial

I don't believe I've said it was beneficial at all.

[–] mrbutterscotch@feddit.org 1 points 1 hour ago

To be fair, prisons in Europe are about rehabilitation and not punishment. Why should Swedish taxpayers pay for the rehabilitation of a non-swede?