Sweden’s right-wing government said this week that it will drastically increase grants to incentivize migrants to leave the country and go home after citizens have revolted to the flood of migrants.
The once migrant-friendly nation is upping its offer by 35 times to more than $34,000 to those who leave the country, AFP reported. The country has been flooded with migrants over the last 30 years from third-world countries, especially Islamic countries, including Syria, Afghanistan, Somalia, Iran, and Iraq.
New Swedish Migration Minister Johan Forssell told reporters this week that the country was “in the midst of a paradigm shift in our migration policy.”
Liberals whined in a government inquiry that sending the message that migrants were not longer wanted in the country would hinder their ability to assimilate into Swedish society. The reason that the political Right in the country wants to send them home is because they are not assimilating to the culture and they drain welfare resources that are intended for the country’s citizens.
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The new policy was announced just two days after Forssell, a moderate, was reassigned from minister for International Development Cooperation and Foreign Trade, where he gutted the country’s foreign aid budget, to be its new migration minister, The New York Times reported.
When Conservative Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson came into office two years ago, he promised to do something about the country’s immigration problem and its exploding gang problem, which was caused by the migrants. The rightward shift on immigration follows a larger trend across the continent as people embrace hardline stances on immigration as they become increasing angry seeing their societies deteriorate because of migrants.
