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Minister pushes for tighter asylum rules

This content was published on May 23, 2009 In interviews with the Mittelland and Südostschweiz newspapers published on Saturday, the minister said asylum requests should be carried out in a simplified, written procedure. “Asylum seekers, whose applications have been denied repeatedly, keep coming back for up to ten years,” she told the newspapers. Last year there were 1,428 applications submitted more than once.…