More specifically, it estimates that the number of deported convicted criminals would rise from around 500 people a year today to 3,000 – although the head of the inquiry, Ola Sjöstrand, stressed in a press conference that the calculation is based on a series of uncertain factors.
The inquiry proposes that Swedish courts should be able to sentence a criminal to deportation for all crimes that carry a more severe penalty than fines, and scrap a requirement which states there should be a risk of relapse. Today, a jail sentence of at least six months is required.
Prosecutors should also always be required to call for deportation if it's an imprisonable offence.
Courts will still have to determine whether a person's connection to Sweden is so strong that they should get to stay regardless.
"The mollycoddling of people who come to Sweden and commit crimes is coming to an end," said Migration Minister Johan Forssell.
"Sweden will now get the toughest regulations for criminal deportations in the whole of the Nordics."
The changes are proposed to come into effect on January 1st, 2027.
Even if the law passes, it's not clear how many deportation sentences will actually lead to people leaving Sweden. It's already difficult to deport people to countries that refuse to accept them, or for example where the person's life would be at risk if they were to return.
Police have previously said they're struggling to enforce deportation orders to a series of countries, such as Afghanistan, Iraq and Somalia.
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