Finland has announced that they will be joining Sweden in plan to remove tens of thousands of migrants.
The two countries receive among the highest number of migrants per capita in the European Union.
The Finnish government announced that they will be deporting at least 20,000 asylum seekers that entered in 2015.
The ministry’s administrative director said: ‘In principle we speak of about two-thirds, meaning approximately 65 percent of the 32,000 will get a negative decision’
‘In previous years around 60 percent received a negative decision but now we have somewhat tightened our criteria for Iraqis, Afghans and Somalis,’
The deportations will take place gradually as immigration authorities process the masses of applications.
Finland has also established strong diplomatic negotiations with Russia to stop migrants from entering Finland.
It is estimated that Sweden would reject around half of the 163,000 asylum requests received in 2015.
Nearly 4,000 people died trying to reach Europe by sea last year, according to the IOM.
