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Deportation initiative slammed.

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Long after voters approved the Swiss People's Party's (SVP) controversial popular initiative for the deportation of foreign criminals, government officials are still dealing with the fallout.

A counterproposal--seen as a compromise between those calling for a stricter stance on foreign criminality, and the legal and human-rights concerns of those opposed to the SVP initiative--was recently passed by the House of Representatives. Federal Migration Office boss, Alard du Bois-Reymond, spoke out in favour of the counterproposal, slamming the SVP's initiative for being "disproportionate".

In a June interview with the Mittelland Zeitung and the Basler Zeitung, du Bois-Reymond claimed that the SVP initiative would see up to a four-fold increase in current deportation figures, with even relatively trivial crimes being reason enough for deportation. Switzerland currently expels between 350 and 400 foreign criminals each year.

Under the terms of the counterproposal, the number of criminal deportations is still likely to increase; with around twice today's number of foreign criminals returned to their homelands.

Besides giving tougher penalties to foreign criminals, the new proposal also places a far greater...

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