Sweden paying ‘refugees’ to go home (and it
is working) by Ann Corcoran
8/31/16 Invasion
of Europe news…..
As Donald Trump
continues to flesh out his immigration policies (I assume today he will focus
on illegal immigration), I think a little sweetener to nudge people to return
home could save America a heck of a lot of money since most migrants, legal and
illegal! are figuring out how to tap into our welfare system.
In 2015 this
Middle Eastern asylum seeker refused to get off a bus at his new home in
Sweden’s frozen north. He said he feared bears and wolves in the forest. (He
might have been more afraid of trees than he admits.) https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2015/01/02/refugee-soap-opera-on-a-bus-in-sweden/
Sweden is offering a cash payment to asylum
seekers if they withdraw their application for asylum and go home. Along with longer wait times and
living conditions in shelters in the cold north, the plan appears to be
working.
Of course,
going home for a price is a sure indicator that the migrants were never really
‘refugees’ in the first place, but economic migrants looking for work and/or
welfare.
A record 4,542 asylum seekers withdrew their
applications and left Sweden in the first eight months of 2016 as a result of
long processing times, strict new rules on family reunion, and payouts to
migrants who voluntarily returned to their country of origin.
There were also
less than half as many new claims made between January and August 2016, as in
the same period of 2015.
Sweden used to
be one of Europe’s most popular destinations for migrants, with the number of
asylum applications doubling between 2014 and 2015 to more than 160,000.
But for many asylum seekers who arrived during
the influx last year, Sweden has proved less of a utopia than they hoped. Many faced a long, cold winter in
political limbo, camped out in makeshift accommodation while the state
struggled to cope with the large number of new claims. Less than 500 of the
160,000 arrivals have managed to secure jobs.
Concerned about
the strain placed on the economy of the country, which was expected to spend
about one per cent of its GDP on asylum seekers in 2016, the Swedish Migration
Agency, a government department responsible for processing claims, introduced
tougher rules at the start of 2016, designed to deter and keep out asylum
seekers.
No surprise!
The Swedish public also appear to be have
become more hostile to migrants. A survey released in February showed immigration was the main concern
for 40 per cent of Swedes, above worries about failing schools, joblessness and
welfare. The change was the biggest opinion swing in the poll’s history.
Continue
reading here and learn about the payment strategy.
We have
previously proposed a repatriation
fund for unhappy migrants (not just refugees
but others) to get them a plane ticket home, we could always add a little
sweetener to the pot. Surely the Dems in Congress would not oppose such a fund
to help unhappy people get back home.
I’m guessing,
we have fifty or more posts on Sweden at RRW. I have long predicted it
would be the first European country to fall as the demographic change (and high
welfare rate) would push it over the edge. However, maybe there is a
glimmer of hope for them after all. Go
here for our Sweden
archive. See our ‘Invasion of Europe’ archive here.
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