Police said Thursday that 19 people they caught working illegally during a raid at the Swedish start-up Stegra's steel mill would be deported.

The announcement came a day after officials from several government agencies carried out a surprise inspection of the company's massive construction site in northern Sweden. The site, at Boden, has a workforce of about 3,000 people.

Police said they had conducted over 100 immigration checks during the raid, finding 19 people who did not have the right to work and reside in Sweden.

"We will continue to work to enforce deportations," border police officer Joakim Lundgren said in statement.

Sweden's Work Environment Authority said that it had ordered 16 out of the 17 companies it had checked at the site "to remedy shortcomings in their work environ

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