Center-Right Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson has finally declared a drastic shift in the immigration policy of a once-peaceful country that has become a haven for the most violent foreign gangs, due to its infamous open-door welcome at the height of the migration crisis that has continued since 2015.
Kristersson announced that Sweden is changing its “migration policy to the EU’s strictest.”
The Sweden Democrats were handed a virtual no-win predicament when they joined the government in 2022, caused by the previous Socialist Democratic Party. “Almost all 5,000 gang members” in Sweden are migrants, and their proliferation is threatening to get worse without state intervention.
Here’s a brief picture of how Sweden’s open-door policy is now haunting the country:
That Sweden has become one of Europe’s most violent countries has finally attracted international attention. The French newspaper Le Monde lamented “Sweden’s powerlessness in the face of organized violence.” The paper quoted Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson from the Moderate Party stating that the situation is “uncontrollable” and may “get worse before it gets better.” Kristersson labelled the dozens of criminal gangs in Sweden “domestic terrorists.”
According to the Brookings Institution, Sweden took in the most refugees per capita:
In 2015, Sweden had a record-high of 162,877 applications for asylum, primarily from Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan—or about 1.6 percent of Sweden’s population of 10 million. This would be proportionally equivalent to over five million people applying for asylum in the United States, which in fact only received approximately 83,000 asylum applications that year
Since 2016, police in Sweden admitted losing control of 55 no-go zones. By 2017, Swedish politicians were calling for the army to be deployed to these areas. That same year, Sweden was reportedly on the brink of civil war, as its National Police Chief Dan Eliasson spoke on national television and pleaded for assistance: “Help us, help us! In 2020, Muslim migrant gangs were terrorizing Sweden’s streets with bombings and murders, while the global spotlight on Sweden has been over so-called “Islamophobic” Qur’an burning incidents.