September 6, 2010
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The National Migration Board (Migrationsverket) believes that the number of asylum seekers in Sweden will decline to 29,000 in 2010 and 27,000 next year.
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"I think Sweden should sign immigrants to settle in those towns as temporary residents and contribute to the economy of those areas. "
Granting residence to asylum seekers, usually costs a lot of money. Low skilled, non literate immigrants usually cause disruption and crime in the small communities they settle in.
"unaccompanied children" is usually a scam, planned by families in the middle east, who would otherwise have bad prospects of getting asylum granted if travelling as a family.
Nearly 30.000 asylum applicants is a very large figure, considering the size of sweden, and compared to other european nations.
It is no doubt rumored that Sweden has a high asylum acceptance rate.
The swedish taxpayers are left with paying the bill, and the next generation of swedes can ponder upon the fact, that the politicians of today have decided to displace swedes with foreigners at an alarming high rate.
Enough is enough.
you try and get asylum in pakistan - what a joke
This way the immigrants will not have any incentive to adjust or learn Swedish, if they know they are returning home. We may just as well set up camps for them in countries neighboring to their country of origin. The world is changing and nothing will be status quo. I bet the Romans also believed that they could keep the Barbarians out of the Roman empire. The pressure got to large from immigrants who had come to live within and the Roman empire crumbled.
So what is the solution? I have no idea, but certainly a reduction in the number of asylum seekers granted entry into the country is called for. We simply do not have the infrastructure, manpower or economic support required when faced with the current numbers, (We are not Norway after all).
As for Muslims bringing only misery. terrorism, honor murder, rape, suicide bombings etc as stated by jackx123, all I can say is jackx123 stop being a racist tool. Having met a number of Muslims in Sweden, I can say that none have tried to make me miserable, terrorize me, honor murder, rape or suicide bomb me. What they have done, is share food with me, good intelligent conversation, and friendship. Simply lumping the worlds horrors into one basket and labeling it Muslim is just plain stupid.
And what was latest news? Swedish with cocaine? c,c,c...
People who don't like immigrants should never go out from Sweden. Don't be surprised if someone verbally attack you just because you are from Sweden, if you do it with immigrants, someone should do it with you.