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Uncontrolled immigration to Sweden in 2015 was anything but “rather small”, so that claim is in my opinion not true.
by synecdoche 3y ago
Uncontrolled immigration to Sweden in 2015 was anything but “rather small”, so that claim is in my opinion not true.
- skissane 3y agoThat wasn’t an example of what I was calling “rather small” - people who become citizens of one EU state in order to gain the right to emigrate to another which they were refused permission to emigrate to directly. What happened in 2015 was Sweden’s own decision, not something forced on Sweden by the EU. If Sweden had chosen to take a hardline anti-refugee position - as some other member states did - the EU would have been powerless to prevent it. In fact, I think your response is a classic example of the phenomenon in which people wrongly blame the EU for the free choices of its member state governments. Sweden chose to welcome refugees even when EU law granted it the legal right to expel them instead