We've known for years (and said in these pages on frequent occasions) that most of the so-called "refugees" seeking "asylum" in the Western world are nothing more than economic migrants, seeking a better life. They're ruthlessly manipulating the West's liberal conscience and sponging off their welfare systems.
It looks like Sweden is waking up to this reality.
The Swedish government has tasked multiple authorities with mapping instances of refugees traveling to their home countries, a practice Migration Minister Johan Forssell described as undermining the integrity of the asylum system.
The initiative, led by the Swedish Migration Agency in collaboration with the police and Swedish embassies, seeks to strengthen the enforcement of residency and protection status regulations amid concerns that many of those claiming asylum in the Scandinavian country are returning to their country of origin for holidays.
“If you have asylum because you fled a country, it is strange if you travel back to that country. It could mean there are no longer grounds for protection or that false information was given,” said Forssell.
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The debate intensified after a 2022 survey by Novus, commissioned by the Bulletin online newspaper, revealed that 79 percent of refugees in Sweden had vacationed in their countries of origin.
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In Sweden, there are no restrictions for refugees who have been granted a permanent residence permit to travel back to their home country. However, refugee status can be revoked if it turns out that the person no longer needs international protection.
There's more at the link.
Sweden's far from alone in facing this problem. There are any numbers of progressive left-wing NGO's and other organizations who are actually coaching self-proclaimed "refugees" in what to say and how to say it, to ensure that they qualify as refugees. They then benefit from becoming agencies to distribute "aid" and "assistance" to the new arrivals. The corrupt trade in "refugees" is worth billions every year. To note just one example in the USA, consider Catholic Charities, which collects literally billions of dollars from the US government to assist "refugees". As far as I'm concerned, Catholic Charities should be on trial for RICO violations, and everyone aiding and abetting fake "refugees" in that organization should be in prison.
(To learn more about how NGO's are aiding and abetting the explosion in illegal migration to the USA, see a series of articles titled "The Immigration Industrial Complex". It's eye-opening.)
I hope President Trump has some plan in mind to shut down the fake refugee traffickers, and cut off funding to the organizations claiming to "assist" them. I also hope he'll tax the heck out of monies they send back to their families, and find some way to track their travels. If they leave the USA, whether to visit their countries of origin or other nations, they clearly aren't worried about being refugees any more - so why allow them to return here?
Peter
"most of the so-called "refugees" seeking "asylum" in the Western world are nothing more than economic migrants, seeking a better life."
ReplyDeleteThat's not exactly a terrible motivation, especially considering how grungy most of their home countries are. If I were a poor farmer in Guatemala or Burkina Faso, I know I'd be trying to get to the First World by hook or by crook.
That having been said, the West is under no obligation to take them in, and if they're deliberately choosing to not contribute it could be argued that the West is obligated to kick them out.
It's just one program to crash the Christian West. From chas, Communist Utopia. It's all been written in their book.
ReplyDelete"Refugees", legitimate ones, stop over the first border they cross.
ReplyDeleteThe human tidal wave engulfing Eurostan are nothing but grifters, who should be rounded up, put in boxcars, and shipped back to their countries of origin, with all the tender loving care granted to Askenazi Jews circa 1941.
Resistance to that should be grounds for imprisonment at forced labor for not less than 50 years, followed by deportation. Including by any bleeding hearts in the countries affected.
The human wave is not and never was "refugees", they were a conquering jihadi army, and should be treated as such throughout all of the European continent, and removed with a lifetime ban on re-entry on exactly those grounds.
Let that diversity strengthen the countries from which they issued, which expedient would dial down the likelihood of the next 5000 terrorist attacks, and remove the next 1,000,000 terror cells, overnight, in a phrase best expressed as "Mirabile dictu!"