Asylum seekers are being machined to the eastern border - will Finland fight it with the border law? Discussion on Yle

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Joakim Vigelius

Published on Jul 4, 2024
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MPs Joakim Vigelius (ps), Karoliina Partanen (kok) and Elisa Gebhard (sd) discussing the border exception law in the morning of Yle on July 4, 2024. Russia has started to instrumentalize immigration against Finland. At the end of 2023, more than 1,300 asylum seekers arrived at Finland's eastern border as a result of Russia's changed visa and border policy. The Russian administration and its authorities have participated in directing the arrivals towards the Finnish border as an attempt to put pressure on Finland. Similar hostile influence has also been proven on the border between Poland and Belarus. As a result of Belarus' actions, tens of thousands of attempts by third-country nationals to cross the country's border have been reported at the Polish border. In Poland, the border crisis has lasted for three years. Finland responded to instrumentalized immigration by closing its entire eastern border. The border has been closed for several months. In the background, however, there is the threat that Russia can at any time machine thousands of immigrants to cross Finland's long and in many places barrier-free land border. Under current legislation, Finland has no option other than to receive those who have reached the Finnish side and are requesting asylum, even if they are guilty of illegal border crossing. Under the leadership of Interior Minister Mari Rantanen (ps.), the government has prepared a law to combat instrumentalized immigration to increase border security, i.e. the eastern border exception law, or the so-called "conversion law". Its purpose is to enable Finland, under certain conditions, to prevent the entry of instrumentalized immigrants, to refuse to accept asylum applications, and to return those who have crossed the border to the other side of the border. The law is an exception law in its form, as it is problematic especially in terms of international agreements and EU law. As an exceptional law, the urgent passage of the law requires that 5/6 of the parliament support it instead of a simple majority of the parliament. With the ruling parties and the center supporting the law and the Greens and the Left Alliance opposing the law, its passage now depends especially on SDP MPs. The emergency law promoting border security will probably fall if a dozen Democrats stand against it. The fate of the border law will be determined in the coming week.

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