According to the Tidö agreement, a duty will be introduced for public employees, such as teachers and healthcare professionals, to report undocumented migrants to the police.
According to Minister of Justice Gunnar Strömmer, it is important to maintain a legally secure order of who can stay in the country and who must leave.
"Is a difference"
But before the 2018 election, it sounded somewhat different from Strömmer, who was then party secretary of the Moderate Party. He was then critical of an SD proposal to introduce a duty to report a neighbor who hides people who have had their asylum application rejected, calling this "denunciation legislation".
In SVT's 30 minutes, Strömmer says that he believes that the two proposals are very differently designed.
– Yes, I think so, there is a very big difference in principle and practice between citizens in general on the one hand and civil servants employed by the public sector on the other, says Strömmer in the program and continues:
"If we are to maintain an order where people can get permission to stay in Sweden and have a reasonable chance of entering our society, then we must also implement the legally secure decisions that mean that some people must leave the country in a completely different way than hitherto.
To be investigated
The proposal on the duty to report for public employees has been met with criticism from, among others, teachers' unions and healthcare employees.
Gunnar Strömmer says that exactly who should be covered by the reporting obligation will be investigated, but he does not rule out that teachers, for example, should be covered.
"No, I don't, it's one of those things that must be included in this examination or investigation of how this is to be done.