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EXPRESS
PUBLISHED: 12:59, Thu, Jul 13, 2017 | UPDATED: 13:24, Thu, Jul 13, 2017
SWEDEN has intensified its crackdown on illegal immigrants after a failed asylum-seeker killed five people in Stockholm, but the move has raised concerns that more migrants will be driven underground to join a shadowy underclass.
In the past months, police have staged wider sweeps on workplaces to check papers, netting undocumented workers, sending a warning to employers and sparking heated debate in a nation that has been traditionally tolerant to migrants.
In May, police carried out their biggest raid so far when dozens of officers swooped on a constructions site in Stockholm.
Nine were caught and sent to detention centres, while another 40 escaped by scrambling onto scaffolding and across roof tops.
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http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/828207/Sweden-crack-down-illegal-immigrants-asylum-seeker-kills-5