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Even Sweden Doesn’t Want Migrants Anymore [due to their high levels of crime and welfare dependency]
foreignpolicy.com ^ | November 17, 2021 | James Traub

Posted on 01/01/2022 11:35:01 AM PST by grundle

Earlier this month, Swedish Minister of Finance Magdalena Andersson delivered her maiden speech as head of the Swedish Social Democratic Party... “If you are young,” she said, “you must obtain a high school diploma and go on to get a job or higher education.” If you receive financial aid from the state, “you must learn Swedish and work a certain number of hours a week.”

The Social Democrats now deploy the harsh language only far-right nativists of the Sweden Democrats party used in 2015... all major parties today stand for a restrictive migration policy with a strong focus on law and order

In recent years, the country has suffered from soaring crime rates. According to a report by the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention, over the last 20 years, Sweden has gone from having one of the lowest to one of the highest levels of gun violence in Europe—worse than Italy or eastern Europe. “The increase in gun homicide in Sweden is closely linked to criminal milieux in socially disadvantaged areas,” the report said. Gangs—whose members are second-generation immigrants, many from Somalia, Eritrea, Morocco, and elsewhere in North Africa—specialize in drug trafficking and the use of explosives. Crime has become the number one issue in Sweden; before she said a word about migration, Andersson boasted that her party added 7,000 new police officers, built more prisons, and drafted laws creating 30 new crimes.

foreign-born represent 53 percent of individuals with long prison sentences, 58 percent of the unemployed, and receive 65 percent of social welfare expenditures; 77 percent of Sweden’s child poverty is present in households with a foreign background, while 90 percent of suspects in public shootings have immigrant backgrounds.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: immigration; invasion; jihad; lutefisk; neuroscience; nokidding; sweden; uffda
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To: grundle
Some people don't have to try it to know it won't work. They are called smart people.

Those who don't fall in this category are called stupid people.

21 posted on 01/01/2022 12:19:02 PM PST by Savage Beast (Donald Trump is an honest man in a den of thieves: Washington.)
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To: grundle

Now try getting rid of those you let in.


22 posted on 01/01/2022 12:19:54 PM PST by SkyDancer ( I make airplanes fly, what's your super power?)
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To: Tennessee Nana

Cut off all benefits to non citizens, deport non citizen homeless, start handing out significnt prison sentences.

Those that remain earned the right to stay.


23 posted on 01/01/2022 12:21:10 PM PST by skeeter
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To: grundle
Even Sweden Doesn’t Want Migrants Anymore [due to their high levels of crime and welfare dependency]

To say nothing of diseases whose danger has long since been erased in the modern civilized world.

24 posted on 01/01/2022 12:22:02 PM PST by Don Corleone (leave the gun, take the canolis)
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To: grundle

One of the reasons the Nordic countries can afford generous social benefits is that they have a culture with a reasonably strong work ethic where everyone contributes. Bring in immigrants that don’t share your values and the system will break down. Crime and dependency is like a virus, and the culture is the host. It’s probably too late, but rather learn a lesson, they will call anyone who points out the source of their problems a racist.


25 posted on 01/01/2022 12:24:17 PM PST by ETCM
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To: grundle

Accepting these “refugees” and “migrants” is like choosing sides for a sandlot baseball or football game and choosing only the worst players.


26 posted on 01/01/2022 12:27:25 PM PST by Sans-Culotte (11/3-11/4/2020 - The USA became a banana republic.)
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To: grundle

GET BACK TO WORK SWEN!!! Muhamed needs his welfare so he can breed you natives out of Sweden and turning it in to just another s hole country filled with s hole people. It’s too late now.


27 posted on 01/01/2022 12:28:38 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: jdsteel

thanks to their “immigrants”

It all makes a lot more sense if we call them invaders.


28 posted on 01/01/2022 12:35:56 PM PST by all the best
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To: grundle

“” If you receive financial aid from the state, “you must learn Swedish and work a certain number of hours a week.””

THAT’S harsh right wing language??? No wonder the third world just walked in and conquered such a bunch of pathetic wimps.


29 posted on 01/01/2022 12:44:12 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: grundle

Meanwhile in America you’re not allowed to notice any “stereotypes”, or characteristics of groups.

(BTW, if those stereotypes don’t exist…why break people into their beloved preferred groups anyway?)


30 posted on 01/01/2022 12:50:37 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMV)
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To: grundle
Abstract principles exercise a strong hold, but lived experience can unmoor people even from values deemed sacred. It falls to leaders not simply to remind people of those values but to curb, harness, and reshape the forces that most deeply threaten democratic principles.

Possibly? Hopefully? Maybe? The US progs will move in this direction?

31 posted on 01/01/2022 12:52:13 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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To: grundle

Yeah, like Norway and Finland, I guess they are running out of blue-eyed blonds for the scum to rape and murder and blame it on rednecks from the deep south of the USA!!!


32 posted on 01/01/2022 12:52:58 PM PST by RetiredArmy (Free Will. GOD gives you the choice I accept or reject Him! Choose Him. It depends on you.)
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To: Rurudyne

Yeah, look how long it took the USA’s commies to realize that Uncle Joe StalinBiden is brain dead and killing them at the polls for the 2022 elections. I hope the stupid RINO party does something right this year and wins back the Congress. That is our only hope. We don’t get the Congress back, then we are in worse trouble for the 2024 presidential. I pray Trump goes again.


33 posted on 01/01/2022 12:55:18 PM PST by RetiredArmy (Free Will. GOD gives you the choice I accept or reject Him! Choose Him. It depends on you.)
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To: DeweyCA

Good Article,

As they say better late then never. I think Sweden is the canary in the coal mine so to speak and if they are starting to get tired of the migrant crisis, thats a sign, that their patience is over. Also where I live in West Europe I am hearing the same sentiment and even from some liberal minded people, I think the welcome mat is over at this point, Europe is getting tired of it.


34 posted on 01/01/2022 1:01:36 PM PST by the_individual2014
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To: grundle

Gun violence in Sweden? Are the guns coming in from Indiana or North Carolina? The only solution is elect a horse-faced PR bartender as leader. Good luck with all of that.


35 posted on 01/01/2022 1:12:09 PM PST by Bernard (If a school can offer varsity sports, it should also offer varsity (honors) academics.)
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To: grundle

Sweden: the San Francisco of Europe.


36 posted on 01/01/2022 1:13:47 PM PST by Albion Wilde (If science can’t be questioned, it’s not science anymore, it’s propaganda. --Aaron Rodgers)
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To: ETCM

Not only that, but the true price of those “generous social benefits” is rarely discussed but central to this conversation: negative birthrates among the natives. Europeans pay high taxes because they have few or no children, and their populations are rapidly disappearing (the same is occurring in the US with white Americans). We just import population from different parts of the world than them (Latin Americana and Hindus instead of Muzzies).


37 posted on 01/01/2022 1:16:32 PM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: grundle

Yeah, but don’t they want them if they can vote? /s

That’s what our Leftists want.


38 posted on 01/01/2022 1:21:58 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Democrats, fixing things that haven't been broken, so they don't work, for over 197 years.)
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To: DeweyCA

What a shame what they did to a previously good country.

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In many areas of this country the U.S. is more like a third world country now.

Unchecked and uncontrolled immigration is radically changing our culture. Just saying.


39 posted on 01/01/2022 1:57:05 PM PST by Starboard
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To: Starboard

40 posted on 01/01/2022 2:07:03 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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