Less than a decade ago, Sweden was accepting more migrants relative to its population than any other nation on Earth. Its state TV ran ads proclaiming “My country is also yours” and that Swedes must integrate into the new multicultural reality.
Now, this year, more migrants will leave Sweden than arrive there.
What’s more, the land of Volvo is merely leading a trend that has seen numerous European nations rethink immigrationist policies. The good news is that this reflects how many native Europeans are rejecting woke, multiculturalist conditioning. The bad news is that their governments are generally playing politics, trying to stave off challenges from the anti-immigrationist Right.
No Coincidence
Just consider, for example, Germany’s ruling Social Democrats’ (SPD’s) migration epiphany. It occurred just as the anti-immigrationist Alternative for Germany (AfD) was poised to win its very first state election. Coincidence? And, oh, what an epiphany it is, too. Per The Telegraph:
When news broke that a jumbo jet full of hardened criminals had taken off from Leipzig, in eastern Germany, to Kabul in the early hours of Aug 30, the world was caught by surprise.
No Western country has officially dealt with Kabul since the Taliban’s chaotic takeover of power in Afghanistan in 2021.
But Berlin was determined to rid itself of 20 convicts, among them murderers and rapists, and show it was serious about putting public safety first.
It was the latest shock[ing] migration move by Germany, once the European country most welcoming to refugees.
On Thursday, another plan from Berlin sent shock waves across the continent. The country’s migration commissioner proposed taking over Britain’s axed migration deal with Rwanda to put an end to people crossing into the EU from Russia.
The scramble to take a hard line on the issue of migration has exposed a country with a government on the brink, fighting a string of crises as it struggles to cling … to power.
What are presented as serious plans appear to be attempts to stave off electoral defeat to the hard-Right Alternative for Germany (AfD) on migration.
Down and out in polling, the flight to Kabul was just the elixir that [German chancellor] Olaf Scholz and his bedraggled government needed. […]
— Read More: thenewamerican.com
