An Update on Sweden’s Experiments in Remigration—More Migrant Crime Leading to More Policy Changes

I have become unashamedly fascinated by the experiment in remigration that the Swedish state is embarking upon. When I step outside my home and look across the Lincolnshire landscape and out into the North Sea in the distance I am all too aware that there is a country beginning to experiment with the policies that are unquestioningly necessary for the survival of my country as well.

For those who need a reminder, Sweden had announced the following remigration policies:

1. The Swedish state will pay migrants (including people with Swedish citizenship) some $34,000 to return to their homelands.

2. The Swedish state is going to tighten citizenship laws by imposing language, cultural, and longer residency requirements.

3. The Swedes are going to tighten their refugee policies to “the strictest in Europe”.

4. The Swedes plan to let more migrant visas expire each year than they approve. Causing a natural decline in non-permanent resident migrants.

5. The Sweden Democrats are pushing through with a media blitz policy to inform migrant communities about the remigration opportunities.

6. The Swedish state is going to make it law that all public workers, including teachers, doctors, and other state employees, must report any interaction with an illegal immigrant.

In my September 13^th piece (below) when I reviewed the original remigration proposal of the Swedish state, I repeated three White Papers recommendations to Swedish policymakers.

The first was that Sweden increase the proposed remigration payment from $15,000 to $30,000 and that third recommendation was that the Swedes engage in a media campaign to work with migrant communities on remigration. Between that article and my December 6^th piece (below) the Swedish state took up both of those recommendations.

While I do not take any personal credit for this development, I certainly do credit the hard work of the White Papers Policy Institute team with mainstreaming the ideas of the Great Repatriation.

Only two months having passed and since that time the Swedes have continued to announce new policies to force the deportation and remigration of the huge non-Swedish and non-European population that has come to take up so much space in the Nordic Kingdom. One of the reasons this has become possible is because of the crime wave sweeping the country.

Over the course of January 2025 more than 30 bombings took place in the Swedish capital, Stockholm. Many of these bombings were carried out by non-Swedish teenagers recruited and hired by gangs to target their competition and in a few cases to set off bombs for no other reason than to cause maximum fear and chaos in the capital.

This spate of bombings has led to a piece of draft legislation being proposed that would allow the police to wiretap children under 15 all the while the Swedish government is working with the European Union to force tech platforms such as Telegram to “do something” about “cracking down” on gang activity on the platform(s). This policy making presents more of the liberal tendency to treat the symptoms and not the root of the problem—the mass non-European immigration that has demographically transformed the kingdom. They also risk curtailing the freedoms of ethnic Swedes in their own homeland, something that should be viewed as unacceptable in response to foreign criminal activity. Luckily these are not the only solutions the Swedish state has proposed.

On the back of these problems the Swedish government is proposing even more nationalist-inspired remigration policies.

In mid-January of 2025 the Swedish government announced that it would be moving to change the Swedish constitution to allow the denaturalization of people viewed as a threat to the internal security of Sweden. The changes would also allow the Swedish government to denaturalize migrants who used bribery or false information to obtain their citizenship in Sweden. The government did push for the ability to revoke the citizenship of members of the criminal gangs terrorizing the country but the parliamentary committee refused to allow it. Regardless, this is a significant development that could lead to the denaturalization of hundreds of thousands of non-Swedes.

Considering that 75% of all “child migrants” the Swedish state tested were lying about their age and the fact that migrants in the country are 30 times more likely than native Swedes to commit fraud against the Swedish state it stands to reason that huge percentages of migrants committed fraud against the Swedish nation in the lead up to acquiring their citizenship not to mention their refugee status or residence permit. It is also worth mentioning that this 75% fraud rate among would-be asylum seekers is similar to the 80% fraud rate amongst “family members” of refugees to the United States or the estimated 70% fraud rate among immigrants who applied for amnesty under the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA), commonly referred to as the Reagan Amnesty.

The Swedes most certainly need legislation to denaturalize gang criminals with dual citizenship, but the current proposal is certainly an improvement upon the current situation where the Swedish constitution prohibits any form of denaturalization. Additionally, the government is still pursuing the objective of deporting gang members and other criminals, but it will be a lengthy fight with parliament to bring this about.

From a Swedish Government website.

In another sensible move that is related to foreign criminals the Sweden’s government recently announced that it was looking into sending foreign criminals to serve their sentences abroad. The country wants to lease jail cells in other countries and send criminals abroad (alongside Swedish jailers) for the duration of their sentence. If the criminals are foreign nationals, they may not be allowed to return to Sweden. This is a fantastic policy, but it is not without issues. The primary issue is that the Swedish state wants to lease prison spaces only in other European countries when the reality is that most foreign and non-Swedish criminals are not other Europeans but are instead non-Europeans from the third world.

These are fantastic policy developments, but Sweden needs to continue taking action to deport and repatriate its huge non-Swedish population. For this reason I am going to make three more recommendations to Swedish policymakers:

1. Allow the denaturalization of anyone who qualifies for a foreign citizenship. The United Kingdom has this rule, and it would cover hundreds of thousands of Swedish-born Arabs and Africans who qualify for citizenship in their homeland by descent.

2. Take a page from Nayib Bukele’s rulebook and build a high-capacity prison. Round up all the gang members and hold them there. Sweden is not El Salvador, of course, and so the gang members should be held in the prison until they agree to voluntarily depart Sweden or can be forcibly deported.

3. Offer a limited amnesty for remigration scheme. Anyone who has committed a crime or obtained their citizenship fraudulently can still claim their remigration payment and leave Sweden under favorable circumstances. This offer must be limited in time to further incentivize departures.

Sweden now leads among Western states in its attempts to reverse the damage of the Great Replacement and begin to reclaim their nation-state. There is a long way to go and I will be watching, encouraging, and warning where necessary.

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