Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

When Sweden shut its doors it killed the dream of European sanctuary
theguardian.com ^ | November 27, 2015 | Andrew Brown

Posted on 11/27/2015 1:52:29 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper

...The unprecedented scale and speed of the autumn’s refugee crisis has forced even the Swedish political class to acknowledge that the ground beneath its feet has shifted forever. There is simply no more money, and no more housing, for everyone who wants to come, and for everyone who was entitled to do so under the old rules.

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: amnesty; freebies; hijrah; islamicimperialism; norway; socialism; socialistutopia; sweden; unsustainable; welfarestate; xenophobia
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041 next last
To: Berlin_Freeper
When Sweden shut its doors it killed the dream of European sanctuary

It needed killin'....

21 posted on 11/27/2015 4:44:12 AM PST by Rummyfan (Let us now try liberty)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Mr. K

Sweden is running out of girls for savages to rape.

Pray America wakes


22 posted on 11/27/2015 4:46:41 AM PST by bray (Trump/Cruz 2016)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: Mr. K

The women and young girls left behind will be sold as sex slaves.


23 posted on 11/27/2015 4:49:37 AM PST by muggs
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: Berlin_Freeper

I LOVE it when reality crashes down upon another liberal fantasy.


24 posted on 11/27/2015 4:51:43 AM PST by Buckeye Battle Cry (Hillary - Ethically sleazy and politically stupid)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Berlin_Freeper
Saw this article. Seems as though perhaps Norway is seeing the light too?

50 Pakistani asylum seekers deported from Norway

ISLAMABAD / GUJRAT: Around 50 Pakistani asylum seekers have been deported from Norway.

Many more will soon be sent back to their home country or to Russia, as the Norwegian government has now introduced stricter rules for asylum seekers, Norwegian Ambassador Tore Nedrebø said in a statement here on Thursday.

More than 400 Pakistani citizens have applied for asylum in Norway during the current year. Most of them have crossed the Norwegian-Russian border in the High North during the last month.

Like in other European countries, the number of asylum seekers arriving in Norway has recently increased sharply. It is estimated that between 30,000 and 40,000 asylum seekers will come to Norway in 2015. The new rush is particularly challenging at the Norwegian-Russian border crossing station at Storskog, where winter has now set in.

Norwegian authorities consider that most of those currently crossing the border are not fleeing from civil war or persecution. Earlier this autumn, the majority was from Syria. Now well over half are from other countries, such as Afghanistan and Pakistan. A large proportion of them are single young men. "Few are entitled to protection and they are putting an unnecessary burden on the Norwegian system," the ambassador said.

Legislative amendments adopted by Oslo last week enable a speedy return of asylum seekers without real need of protection to their home country, or to their country of habitual residence, which may be Russia. The new legislation also contains provisions making it possible to arrest and remand in custody foreign nationals whose asylum applications will most likely not be processed, or to impose on them a duty to report to the authorities and to stay in a specific place.

Benefits for asylum seekers have been reduced and rules for family immigration are tightened.

The new rules also increase the discretion of Norwegian immigration authorities not to process an asylum request if the applicant has already resided in a safe third country. "Norway considers Russia to be a safe country," Mr Nedrebø said.

He points out that to be eligible for asylum under the international Refugee Convention, a person must be in real need of protection. People whose applications are denied must return to their home country or the country of habitual residence. Those who do not leave voluntarily will be returned by force. Asylum applications that appear likely to be denied will be given priority and fast-tracked.

"Applications from Pakistani nationals generally fall into this category," the ambassador said.

Some central region districts of Punjab such as Gujrat, Mandi Bahauddin, Jhelum, Sialkot and Gujranwala have been the potential areas of those who seek asylum in European countries, including Norway. Some 40,000 expatriates of Pakistani origin are currently residing in Norway and around 30,000 of them belong only to Gujrat district. It is generally believed that those who have recently been refused asylum by the Norwegian government are from Gujrat and Mandi Bahauddin districts.

Talking to Dawn, Attaché (Migration) of Norwegian Embassy Torben Sveaass Kalland said that "between 20 and 30 Pakistanis have been deported during the past few weeks. It shows that the number of people, who are trying to go to Norway illegally, has suddenly increased".

He said majority of people who crossed the Norwegian-Russian border had valid Russian visa which showed that they travelled to Russia legally and then they crossed the border illegally.

"We have informed the Russian embassy in Islamabad about the situation at Storskog and the new policy."

Replying to a question, he said that generally people, who cross borders illegally, destroy their passports.

All the people crossing the Norwegian border with Russia had documents. "The part of Russia bordering Norway is a militarised area, so Pakistanis cannot afford to travel without documents in those areas. So they carry their passports and identity documents," he added.

"We obviously cannot stop people travelling from Pakistan to Russia. But we will certainly consider all possibilities to reduce the number of people crossing the border without a visa."

Director of the Federal Investigation Agency (Immigration) Inam Ghani told Dawn said that he was aware that the people had been trying to go to Norway from Russia but claimed that they were going to Russia on legal documents.

"Currently two types of people have been going to Russia. Some are going after getting a visit visa and others on a student visa. We cannot stop those who travel on legal documents," he said.

"We, however, have started profiling of travellers. During profiling, we ask them the purpose of their visit abroad and why they want to go especially to Russia. If a person who intends to go to Russia has just $150 and it is confirmed that he never travelled even to Murree in the past we stop him from proceeding," he said.

"I believe that Norway should take up the issue with Russia and persuade its embassy to change its visa policy," Mr Ghani said.

Published in Dawn, November 27th, 2015

25 posted on 11/27/2015 4:53:35 AM PST by csvset ( Illegitimi non carborundum)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Berlin_Freeper
The obvious solution to the problem, make the refugee's home countries better places, seems to elude the bleeding hearts.

They, the libs, really believe that if civilized western countries can't take in many millions of feckless, mostly unassimilable immigrants from backward countries, the world (or at least the lib's version) will come to an end. It won't.

26 posted on 11/27/2015 4:59:14 AM PST by driftless2 (For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Berlin_Freeper

Many people cry when they are happy.


27 posted on 11/27/2015 5:23:32 AM PST by billyboy15
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: St_Thomas_Aquinas

I was amazed by the comments. The first thing, is how different the European mindset is to begin with. But there’s no doubt, the consequences of their actions are beginning to dawn on them. They aren’t happy. Socialism is deeply ingrained in them so this nightmare is a real shock, not just culturally, but politically as well.


28 posted on 11/27/2015 5:49:43 AM PST by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: Berlin_Freeper

29 posted on 11/27/2015 5:55:27 AM PST by Bon mots
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: muggs

...and the men will be converted to Islam


30 posted on 11/27/2015 6:09:24 AM PST by ncpatriot
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 23 | View Replies]

To: Bullish
Absolutely amazing to read the comments section. Usually a cauldron of 1st world self-hatred, the sober remarks show that the worm has finally turned. Too late I fear. I just hope America will wake up in time.
31 posted on 11/27/2015 6:10:58 AM PST by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: I like to destroy the Turks (Moslims))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Bullish

Even the fruitcake ice gnomes are coming to their senses?


I really doubt it. They will bide their time and wait for the political winds to shift again. Then resume the insanity.


32 posted on 11/27/2015 6:18:11 AM PST by rbg81 (is pr)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: driftless2
The obvious solution to the problem, make the refugee's home countries better places, seems to elude the bleeding hearts.

That seems like a reasonable solution but that would also mean a wholesale change in their religious beliefs. There are good reasons those countries are hell holes. It is no mystery. It is either their wicked religions or their wicked governments, usually both, because one is generally related to the other.

Islam is among the most wicked religions on the planet but they are all wicked except Christianity and Judaism (which is Biblically related for God's own reasons). The latter are the primary reasons Western Civilization and individual freedom and liberty have progressed to the extent they have - the tinkering with Greco-Roman and Age of Reason systems notwithstanding.

Importing endemic wickedness into our own country isn't going to improve it. It will just pollute our own society and wreck that which we have so painfully built over 400 years.

Liberals insist one can change the heart simply by changing the physical environment and there is not a spiritual dimension to all of this and it is all on the physical and reason level. That is proven by long history as utter foolishness but they insist it is the answer to human wickedness and dysfunction. In fact, it is their religion and no amount of argument or even bad experience are apt to change their settled delusions. They will simply think we didn't try hard enough or give them enough power to establish their agendas.

It is also the materials of which tyranny is made.

33 posted on 11/27/2015 6:42:41 AM PST by Gritty (The Barbarians Are Inside, And There Are No Gates. So screw the candlelight vigil. - Mark Steyn)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 26 | View Replies]

To: Berlin_Freeper

Its the Guardian - their leftist bias colors everything. I simply don’t believe what they are writing.


34 posted on 11/27/2015 6:48:00 AM PST by PGR88
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Berlin_Freeper
Here comes the great 2016 Muslim "refugee" Tet Offensive.


35 posted on 11/27/2015 6:50:54 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Berlin_Freeper
When Sweden shut its doors it killed the dream of European sanctuary

The move was a matter of survival, and they may have been too late.

36 posted on 11/27/2015 6:59:47 AM PST by The Sons of Liberty ( Kill 'em all, Let GOD sort 'em out!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Berlin_Freeper
Been posted before, showing the American version. Factor that one x 10 for Europe and the UK.

Immigration, World Poverty and Gumballs.

37 posted on 11/27/2015 10:34:54 AM PST by Oatka (ES)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Gritty
The obvious solution to the problem, make the refugee's home countries better places, seems to elude the bleeding hearts.
That seems like a reasonable solution but that would also mean a wholesale change in their religious beliefs. . . . It is no mystery. It is either their wicked religions or their wicked governments, usually both, because one is generally related to the other.

Until Islam has its own version of Martin Luther hammering his theses on the mosque door, they remain an alien religion.

I don't see even a glimmer of his like anywhere over there.

38 posted on 11/27/2015 10:44:45 AM PST by Oatka (ES)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 33 | View Replies]

To: Berlin_Freeper

For decades the Europeans looked down their noses at us, mocked us, pitied us clueless Americans.

We had all this crime, all these divisions among the peoples in our country.

And the guns, MY GOD, the guns.

They had unity and understanding.

Us Americans were crude, savage.

I wonder what they think now, their wives, girlfriends, daughters on the ground being raped by true savages, while they are powerless to do anything about it?


39 posted on 11/27/2015 11:10:40 AM PST by Balding_Eagle (The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Berlin_Freeper
Of course nobody could see this coming, in advance. They had to wait until it was an irreversible fact. 0bama counts on this with the US.
40 posted on 11/27/2015 8:51:32 PM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder (This space for rent.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson