The Moderates, the Sweden Democrats and the Christian Democrats are the ones who push hardest for a tighter migration policy. They hope to bring the Social Democrats along a restrictive line.

- I hope that S will listen to the many municipal councils around the country who share our problem statement that we need to bring down the volumes if we are to achieve integration, says M's migration policy spokesperson Maria Malmer Stenergard.

Want volume goals

M and KD want Sweden to stay on the level of other Nordic countries when it comes to the number of asylum seekers. This would mean between 5,000 and 8,000 people this year. The Migration Agency's forecast for 2019 speaks of 21,000 asylum seekers.

"In relation to the EU, we need a continued restrictive migration policy," says Rikard Larsson, migration policy spokesperson for S.

He points out that the municipalities already have a "huge mission" in taking care of new arrivals.

SD has zero vision

The Swedish Democrats' leader Jimmie Åkesson sees the Migration Committee as a way for S to hide the issue of migration. However, he believes that the Committee can take steps towards a tighter migration policy. SD has a zero vision when it comes to asylum and family immigration and wants to get more people back.

Can SD agree to an agreement even if it does not go as far as SD wants?

- It remains to be seen. I find it difficult to see that all parties would agree on a common line, because it would not be good, says Åkesson.

He believes that the Left Party, the Environment Party and the Center run an extremely liberal migration policy.

Can escape

Today, a person who has been granted asylum may have to drop the living allowance requirements for the application for family immigration within three months after the residence permit has been granted. KD now wants to waive this exception, as does the exception for unaccompanied children under 18 who want to bring their parents here.

- It's a huge problem, says Hans Eklind, KD's migration policy spokesperson.

He points out that parents send their children away alone on life-threatening journeys and then be able to find out when the child has been granted asylum. At the same time, KD wants to introduce a new exemption from the support requirements for parents who have received a residence permit in Sweden and want to have their children under 18 years of age.

M and SD also want to tighten the supply requirements. S, on the other hand, does not now want to lock in on how the requirements should be designed. Neither do C and L put his foot down. The welfare requirements are related to the question of which groups with residence permits should be entitled to family immigration. That issue will also be dealt with in committee.