Switzerland's largest political party, the Swiss People's Party, has proposed deporting immigrant families if their children are convicted of crimes involving violence, drugs and benefit fraud.
Ueli Maurer, the party's president, said: "We believe that parents are responsible for bringing up their children. If they can't do it properly, they will have to bear the consequences."
The party said foreigners, who make up 20 percent of the Swiss population, are four times more likely than native Swiss to commit crimes.
The Guardian has already likened the proposal to laws enacted by Nazi Germany.


