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Published more: 2015-12-03 10:20 | SR - SVERIGES RADIO

Sweden to step up deporting failed asylum seekers

Home Affairs Minister Anders Ygeman visiting border police at Malmö's Hyllie train station near the Danish border. Photo: Stig-Åke Jönsson / TT.

Authorities are redoubling their efforts to deport asylum seekers in Sweden whose applications have been turned down, newspaper Dagens Nyheter reports, saying more than 10,000 failed asylum cases have been handed over to the police so far this year.

Police in southern Sweden are recruiting more officers to double the number of border police handling deportation cases. Law enforcement officials say they hope to have 150 police officers in the...