What percentage of illegals in Sweden (or the USA) work? What percent of refugees in Sweden (or the USA) work? Exactly what are the vast majority of these people contributing other than a welfare burden?
They are looking at it from the prospective of a planned economy/socialist utopia; the government workforce (or “state”, which in their eyes, as well as those of our Democratic Party) should be the only workforce, needs “clients”, not workers (especially if you have European levels of unemployment). These foreigners basically keep the lights on in schools, housing, etc. that would be devoid of people without them.
Here in the northeastern US we have the same situation; they are importing customers and trying to lay the costs on the rest of the states - including those to which our American taxpayers fled. Without foreigners trafficked here to fill the void, whole areas of my state of NJ would be ghost towns - and all those government workers would be out of “work”.