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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So if Sweden can do it…..It’s time for the wise words of Gad ‘Obe Wan’ Saad;
”The ultimate form of Suicidal Empathy:
Noble Prospective Immigrant: Please, please, please, please, please, let me into your society. I just want a chance to thrive. Please.
The West: OK, come in.
Noble Immigrant: I hate you. I hate your culture. I hate your values. I hate your religion. I have your freedoms. I hate your liberties. I hate the air that you breathe. I hate everything about you, your ancestors, and your descendants. We shall recreate here the exact society from which we fled. Your society is disgusting.
The West: Oh I see. Thank you for sharing your feedback. OK, so let us see how we can increase immigration from your Noble Societies.”
This guy looks like he’s off to a good start as a British citizen in terms of integrating. The ‘tea towel’ tells me all I need to know, but at least he had the Lord Mayor of Brighton to make him feel right at home;
https://x.com/JackBMontgomery/status/1879203930187665518
Imagine being so grateful and happy to reach your final destination in Europe and be given asylum and safety from the horrors you’ve left behind in your homeland that your first thought is to go out with your pals and gang rape a lone native female? I mean, if that doesn’t scream ”I’m eternally grateful to be here and I intend to learn and respect your customs, contribute and fully integrate into your society” I don’t know what does. And their measly sentences because they were tried as minors is the final insult. Geert needs to deport this scum;
”Four men were convicted in the cruel gang rape of a homeless woman in Helmond about a year ago. The District Court in Den Bosch sentenced three of them to 15 months in a youth detention center, and the other to 12 months, but they each can get three months of their sentence suspended if certain conditions are met. A fifth suspect was found guilty of sexual assault and sentenced to four months in juvenile detention.
The 33-year-old woman was alone on a park bench on December 16, 2023 in the Burgemeester Geukerspark in Helmond. The court surmised the allegations, saying that two of the co-defendants walked up to the woman, bound her, grabbed her under the arms, and dragged her to a grassy area. “She was then pushed to the ground and beaten, her mouth was pressed shut so that she could not scream for help and then she was brutally raped multiple times and in multiple rounds by the [suspects], both vaginally and anally.”
In this case, the four suspects convicted of gang rape were all “unaccompanied, minor foreigners,” the court noted, saying, “they still need a great deal of help and guidance in functioning in Dutch society.” They were also ordered to pay nearly 15,500 euros in compensation to the victim.
The Public Prosecution Service had recommended two years in youth detention against four of the five suspects, with several months suspended on condition. Under juvenile criminal law, the judges presiding over the case could impose a maximum of two years in a juvenile correctional facility for the convicted suspects. They could have added an order to spend a maximum of seven years in a psychiatric facility.
Had the court chosen to punish the suspects as adults, they could have received up to 12 years in prison for rape.”
https://nltimes.nl/2025/01/14/four-convicted-gang-rape-homeless-woman-spend-15-mos-youth-detention
Two years isn’t nearly enough. Deportation must follow.
Certain crimes shouldn’t allow the defence of “I’m only a child”. Stealing maybe; gang-rape: you knew it was wrong, you’re therefore an adult, pay the price.
Yes exactly. I was reading Geert Wilders Twitter page. Everyone up in arms about it, as you can imagine. They’re saying they don’t want to become like England and lots of references to the rape gangs, also the reason they voted PVV was to import less Islam and deport the trash. It’s tricky with a coalition government though. Not sure where these particular migrants are from. Dutch press is bad for paywalling anything worth reading.
The defence were using some BS excuse in court about how them being unaccompanied youths with no adult guidance made them more susceptible to getting into trouble. As if they somehow don’t know basic right from wrong and committing a serious offence like this is inevitable.
I’d like to know if they’re even minors at all and if they presented I.D that was checked. Oldest trick in the book, passing yourself off as a minor because it’s harder to be deported, as well as other perks, I’m sure. We don’t want dirtbags who don’t respect us, don’t appreciate this opportunity they have and can’t even adhere to the laws of the land.
Start the sentence with castration.
€15,000? So, about £12600? Wow.
“they still need a great deal of help and guidance in functioning in Dutch society.”
No shit! Whoever made the above comment, is morally reprehensible. Perhaps if they were subject to a similarly brutal attack, their appeasing attitude may change.
So, it can be done.
Yes. Interesting. How come Sweden has avoided being dragged to the ECHR? What’s the secret? We need it.
Part of the secret could be that “mainstream” political parties in Sweden are happy to work with “populist” parties rather than labelling them far right and refusing point blank to form a coalition with them. AfD are currently in second place in German opinion polls, even if they manage to increase their popularity before the elections in March as get more votes than any other party they won’t be part of the next government as under PR they won’t be able to form a majority government and all the other parties will gang up on them.
Interesting that they call the Sweden Democrats the “anti-immigration” party. Usually those kind of parties are referred to as “far right”.
Funny how one country, Sweden, is the only one to successfully cope with the fake covid terror and immigration. Doesn’t say much about the political/medical quality of the rest
https://x.com/recusant_raja/status/1876956597919842580?t=24LjeqRhm3iifRs28GPQIw&s=19
Oldham news – sort of.
Raja has worked tirelessly to raise awareness of CSE and the complicit politicians.
Well done the Swedes, I wonder how many of their rejects end up in Britain where they will find a warm welcome and benefits galore
Well done to the Swedes. They’ve obviously decided not to allow their country, culture and heritage to be completely destroyed.
Just got to start the deportations now.
Sweden seem to be leading the way in several things over the last 5 or so years.
Joining NATO was a possible blip!
Are they sure it is Swedish government policy stopping the migrant influx or is it that there are more places the migrants would rather go than Sweden? It’s hard for any place to compete for migrants with the free handouts and luxury accommodation provided by Britain.
Sweden has cracked down on asylum seekers and tightened rules around asylum, with hardline immigration policies. This proves it can be done…but there has to be a willingness to do it!
That willingness and determination is fundamentally lacking in U.K. politics, irrespective which political party has been in ‘power’ to date. Two-tier Starmer and his cronies in the House has no intention whatsoever to tackle the massive problem.