The number of migrants granted asylum in Sweden dropped to the lowest level in 40 years in 2024 after a years-long crackdown on immigration under a succession of Governments. The Mail has the story.
Sweden stunned the world by taking in nearly 163,000 asylum seekers during the 2015 migrant crisis – the highest number per capita of any EU country.
But following a dramatic policy reversal, just 6,250 asylum-related residence permits were granted in the Scandinavian country last year, according to Migration Minister Johan Forssell, who cited fresh statistics from the Migration Agency.
That figure does not include Ukrainians, who have been granted temporary protection throughout the European Union.
The number of people who applied for asylum in Sweden in 2024 was 9,645, the lowest since 1996 and down by 42% since 2022.
The huge influx of migrants in 2015 onwards made it impossible to effectively integrate all of the new arrivals, Mr. Forssell has now said, with insufficient housing, schools and work opportunities.
This prompted successive Left and Right-wing governments to tighten rules around asylum, with the most hardline immigration policies coming in following the landmark 2022 election.
Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson’s centre-Right minority Government, propped up by the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats, brought in a sweeping package of reforms.
Recent measures introduced to reduce migration include the granting of only temporary residence permits to asylum seekers, tighter family reunification requirements and raising income requirements for work visas for non-EU citizens.
The current Government has also announced plans to offer immigrants $34,000 to leave the country, and to make it easier to expel migrants for substance abuse, association with criminal groups or statements threatening ‘Swedish values’.
Mr. Forssell, who has overseen the crackdown since he took up his office in September 2022, told reporters: “While the number of asylum seekers is historically low, the number being granted asylum is also low.
“Today, three out of four people seeking asylum in Sweden are not considered to have sufficient grounds to be granted residency. They are therefore not refugees, and they must return home,” he said.
Mr. Forssell noted that Sweden’s low levels stood out, with the number of asylum seekers in the European Union, Norway and Switzerland topping one million last year, nearing the level seen during the 2015 migrant crisis.
He said Sweden would need to continue to keep its numbers down in the coming years. …
Family reunifications have been tightened, residency permits are more easily revoked and asylum rights have been slashed to the bare minimum allowed under EU law.
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Scapegoat for the corrupt and incompetent NHS…
It’ll be us tax payers paying for he huge compensation when she’s released…
I thought you were leaving DS?
That was posted before the multi parrotting of the bs narrative.
So stfu..
There’s absolutely nothing on this site that I can’t find on msm.. It’s nothing but pretence.. Day after day, week after week, year after year of nothing but parrotting of the forced narrative by the same old people, saying nothing new, all while the likes of you think you’re being a Sceptic…… Clueless
“So stfu.”
Your rudeness amply displays the thugish level at which you seek to engage with the members of this site but I can assure you it is not considered acceptable by the vast majority.
“There’s absolutely nothing on this site that I can’t find on msm.. It’s nothing but pretence.”
Which naturally begs the question, ‘why are you here?’
If you can find the same information in the Main Stream Media as DS provides then surely your shekels would be better spent in a local town centre boozer where perhaps opinions might not be so nuanced as are found here. That is not meant to wish you good riddance as I am sure DS Editorial welcome contributions from whatever sources, no matter how humble, but surely some self reflection is warranted, no?
The Daily Sceptic has developed over the four years I have been a member / subscriber and I believe it is a site which supports lively, informed, opinionated but always well mannered discussions. We do not all share the same opinions, fortunately but surely in these frankly dark and dangerous times the ability to talk freely but politely is to be welcomed and supported.
At least you have provided a degree of low level comedy via your postings but I really do think you should be looking elsewhere for people with whom you can vociferate. There must be outlets available somewhere.
Toodle pip.
Epic.
Evidently the kind of person whose picnic is totally devoid of sandwiches.
It’s the fact he’s literally spent money to come on a site he’s previously ( in different guises ) and continuously moans about, saying “I’m done” then just comes back with a different name time and again…What rational person goes on like that?
Thanks Mogs.
She’s as guilty as hell.
The transcripts I have read indicate that Ms Letby is wholly innocent but there are two or three doctors who appear to have been negligent and that’s a generous assessment.
And you know this how?
Her guilt was shown by the fact that she was always on duty when the babies died, except when she wasn’t… something a little inconsistent there.
Statistical rounding error…
Yes didn’t Norman Fenton carry out some analysis about various doctors and nurses attending the ward and basically showed anyone could have been responsible? Looks like a cover up to me of NHS incompetence.
The modelling shows that this could never happen – so that proves it.
(whatever it is)
Experts. Don’t you just love them. Poor Sally Clark all over again perhaps.
The NHS seem certain she’s guilty though –
https://www.england.nhs.uk/2023/08/commenting-on-the-verdict-in-the-lucy-letby-trial/
Ruth May needs to keep her trap shut.
The NHS are still pushing the bloody C1984 “vaccines.” So far I have received two text messages “inviting” me and a further email.
Two days ago I had to attend A & E. The tannoy is still pumping out messages telling people to wear masks, socially distance and wash hands – unbelievable given the damages the first two have caused.
One thing’s for sure. It’s quite certain that particularly with their jab rhetoric the NHS has caused and will continue to cause the death of thousands more than Lucy Letby ever has.