Sweden Imposes Temporary Border Controls Amid Refugee Crisis

Sweden imposed temporary border controls to stem a record inflow of refugees as the Nordic nation pleads with the rest of Europe to help deal with the biggest migration wave seen in the region since World War II.

The government put checks in place as of noon on Thursday, targeting key crossings such as the Oeresund bridge from Denmark. The checks will last 10 days and can be extended for 20 days at a time, in line with European Union rules, the government said. Ferry operators have also been asked to carry out identity checks and set up passenger lists.

Migrants walk the freeway near the Danish-German border heading north to Sweden

Migrants walk the freeway near the Danish-German border heading north to Sweden
Photographer: Claus Fisker/AFP/Getty Images

“We need another system, that’s obvious,” Prime Minister Stefan Loefven said Thursday before a summit of European Union and African leaders in Malta. “This is not an issue for one, two or three countries; this is an issue for the whole European Union.”

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Phil
Phil
9 years ago

The multicultural doof bag lunatics running the government advertised and begged to have the terrorist whores come and invade there nation and also invited ISIS terrorists to come, and now they want to impose border controls, what kind of lunatics have been let out of the asylum and are running there government. What a sick bunch of demented people in that crap hole of a nation it has become. Many people in your nation including your feminized Men will watch as your families are raped, tortured and murdered because you are white and you will watch your nation fall to third world status whom ever is left and not beheaded. you get what you deserve because God has sent a derision upon you leaders and people for your filthy progressive left wing ways.