On Sunday, the Christian Democrats took another step toward a tougher migration policy. The party voted yes to the party board's line on the question of family reunification: Unaccompanied children must be able to support their family if the parents are allowed to come to Sweden.

According to KD, an unaccompanied child who has received asylum in Sweden should not have the right to bring his parents here, and a parent should not have the right to take his wife or husband to Sweden, but rather their children.

"Going against the Children's Convention"

From 1 January 2020, the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child will become law in Sweden. The KD's proposal for stricter welfare requirements is then something that goes against, among others, the Children's Convention and the European Convention, the Red Cross believes.

- International conventions can be interpreted and transposed in different ways nationally. However, it is difficult for us to see that such a requirement, that children should be required to provide for their parents in order to be reunited with their parents, can be considered compatible with our international commitments, says Alexandra Segenstedt.

Busch Thor: Does not violate the Convention on the Rights of the Child

However, party leader Ebba Busch Thor said in the speaker's chair during the national assembly that the condition for the tougher rules is that they do not violate the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Alexandra Segenstedt says that, according to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, children have the right to live with their family and parents and that an application for family association must be handled in a "positive, urgent and humane way".

- If it is true that the children have been given a protection rating here in Sweden, ie they are considered to be alternatively in need of protection or refugees, then for reasons of protection they cannot return to the home country and the reunification must therefore take place where they are now, ”she says.

See Ebba Busch Thor's response to the Red Cross's criticism in the clip above from tonight's Agenda.