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Sweden's Migration Minister Tobias Billström wants more migrants to get jobs before their families can follow them to Sweden, but he may face an uphill struggle to convince his government partners to tighten up current family reunification rules.
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What sort of parents flees a country and leaves their children behind ?
The sort that likes his children to eat every day.
They send all the money they can spare to their families.
What kind of bubble are you living in to not know that?
Nice work Mr. Billström.
The main idea is to control the amount of refugees accepted and actually have the resources to help them. Until these close minded individuals start understanding the difference between and immigrant and a refugee then policies will never change in this country.
So wake up an actually stop being the refugee basket for the rest of Europe because your system sucks and it will always suck because things here are done to slow and everybody is looking out for themselves and not the majority.
I know personally people who came from Vietnam,Kosovo, Lebanon,etc.,leaving war-torn homelands to come to a strange country.The help and assistance they received was mostly greeted with sincere and honourable gratitude and repaid with reasonable levels of integration..
I am aware that some,as in all societies, abuse 'the system'. That, however,is no reason to condemn all.
This having been said, there is a vast difference between refugees from war' and 'economic refugees'.
There is nothing offensive in requiring that a person has a job to support applications for his family to join him/her.Most 'genuine' migrants would not have it any other way.
Who would have thought they had turned into cultural marxist fanatics? It simply came out of the blue. At least to those of us that were not so extremely interested in swedish party politics at that time.
Fool me once..
Yeah, I like to make sure my children eat daily. That's why I have a job and go to work everyday.
Quoting the first comment:
"What sort of parents flees a 'house to work' and leaves their children behind ? "
He said country, learn to read please. He has a point too, what kind of parents WOULD flee a country and leave their children behind?
Even though suggested law seems logical if the unemployment rates is lower and there are more job opportunities.
Yes, the government should consider family life but how about starting at home with their own people?