Finland expects to expel 20,000 of last year's asylum seekers
HELSINKI - Finland expects to expel nearly 20,000 migrants out of the 32,000 who sought asylum last year, a senior official from interior ministry said on Thursday, around the normal percentage but many more people.
"20,000 is the estimate we are working with at the moment, but the number of asylum seekers who decide to return voluntarily could change it", Permanent Secretary Paivi Nerg told Reuters.
That would be roughly 62 percent expelled. It compared with 56 percent in 2014, when there were only 3,651 applications.
