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Sweden to get 100,000 refugees in 2014: report
UPDATED: Sweden can expect a record-breaking 100,000 refugees to arrive this year, reported Swedish media on Tuesday. The Migration Board said the prognosis was officially 60,000 in July.
In October, Sweden's Migration Board (Migrationsverket) is expected to raise the prognosis of refugees in Sweden to 100,000, reported the Sydsvenskan newspaper on Tuesday.
The total would mark an all-time record for Sweden.
A spokesperson from the board explained that the dramatic increase Sweden has seen of late could be put explained by the unrest around the world.
"And there's always an increase in the autumn. We think that will be the case this year too," Christer Zettergren told the paper.
If Sydsvenskan's prognosis is accurate, the 2014 total will eclipse the most intense period of the Yugoslav War in the 1990s.
The board took to Twitter on Tuesday morning, however, to say that the information in the paper was incorrect, and that July's prognosis still applied.
This year's income so far has arrived mostly from Syria, Somalia, Libya, and Eritrea.
Another reason for the hike in numbers is the worsening situation in northern Iraq.
"Our conclusion is that refugees from there still can't get to Sweden, but will be able to by late autumn," Zettergren concluded.
Sweden to get 100 000 refugees in 2014 report - The Local
America is 32 times as large as swedens population...This would be like the Reagan Amnesty or slightly bigger...Around 3,200,000 people coming into America in one year. This is destroying the culture of sweden.
UPDATED: Sweden can expect a record-breaking 100,000 refugees to arrive this year, reported Swedish media on Tuesday. The Migration Board said the prognosis was officially 60,000 in July.
In October, Sweden's Migration Board (Migrationsverket) is expected to raise the prognosis of refugees in Sweden to 100,000, reported the Sydsvenskan newspaper on Tuesday.
The total would mark an all-time record for Sweden.
A spokesperson from the board explained that the dramatic increase Sweden has seen of late could be put explained by the unrest around the world.
"And there's always an increase in the autumn. We think that will be the case this year too," Christer Zettergren told the paper.
If Sydsvenskan's prognosis is accurate, the 2014 total will eclipse the most intense period of the Yugoslav War in the 1990s.
The board took to Twitter on Tuesday morning, however, to say that the information in the paper was incorrect, and that July's prognosis still applied.
This year's income so far has arrived mostly from Syria, Somalia, Libya, and Eritrea.
Another reason for the hike in numbers is the worsening situation in northern Iraq.
"Our conclusion is that refugees from there still can't get to Sweden, but will be able to by late autumn," Zettergren concluded.
Sweden to get 100 000 refugees in 2014 report - The Local
America is 32 times as large as swedens population...This would be like the Reagan Amnesty or slightly bigger...Around 3,200,000 people coming into America in one year. This is destroying the culture of sweden.
