Sweden’s state broadcaster has been ruled against twice — for referring to illegal migrants as “illegal migrants” during news reports.
The decision came from the country’s media watchdog after just two viewers complained about the wording used in a segment on the flagship program Rapport last September.
The report covered protests in Britain against immigration.
Viewers were told that “right-wing extremist groups” were behind the demonstrations before interviews were aired with participants.
WHAT THE OFFENDING REPORT ABOUT?
During the report one man said: “We don’t want problems. We want to live in peace,” adding that “a limit has been reached.”
A woman asserted: “We don’t want all these paperless illegal people wandering around our streets in small groups and scaring our children.”
Among the incidents fuelling the anger was the case of a 41-year-old Ethiopian man accused of assaulting a 14-year-old girl.
Following the interviews, the broadcaster’s UK correspondent told viewers that record numbers of “illegal migrants” had crossed the English Channel into Britain this year.
THERE IS NOTHING ILLEGAL ABOUT SAYING “ILLEGAL MIGRANTS” IN THE UK
The British state classifies such arrivals as “illegal migration.”
But that legal definition carries no weight with the Swedish media watchdog.
The Review Board ruled that describing individuals as “illegal migrants” was “both misleading in violation of the requirement for objectivity, and evaluative in violation of the requirement for impartiality.”
It stated that even if the phenomenon is classified as illegal migration by British authorities, that does not justify using the term “illegal migrant” for individuals.
Two of the board’s panel dissented — arguing that the term should not have been sanctioned.
IN SWEDEN THEY’RE REFERRED TO AS ‘UNDOCUMENTED PEOPLE”
The judgement came as Sweden announced plans to significantly increase the deportation of immigrants convicted of crimes.
Migration Minister Johan Forssell said that for too long foreign nationals who committed serious crimes in Sweden had been treated leniently.
The current Swedish government is implementing measures to make life harder for “undocumented people.”
“UNDOCUMENTED PEOPLE” IS A MAJOR PROBLEM IN SWEDEN
This includes potentially requiring public sector workers to report undocumented individuals to authorities — a proposal that has faced significant criticism.
That’s despite estimates of between 30,000 and 50,000 “undocumented people” living in Sweden.
So it’s also a major political problem in Sweden.
Just don’t mention “illegal migrants.”
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