Sweden Embraces Repatriation

The Nordic Nation seeks to undo demographic damage

For years Sweden has been labeled the “canary in the coal mine” in regards to mass immigration, demographic change, population replacement, and migrant crime and chaos. Nationalists, conservatives, and even some left-wing movements (such as Denmark’s Social Democratic Party) have used Sweden as an example of what to avoid when it comes to mass immigration and the accompanying social chaos.

Now, amidst record amounts of crime, disorder, gang activity, and a deteriorating economy the Swedish ruling class, as damaging and anti-Swedish as they have been for decades, seem to have finally come around to basic reality. Sweden cannot function as a stable, sovereign, and coherent country if the Swedish nation that created it is drowned out by changing demographics.

Sweden’s moderate prime minister, Ulf Kristersson, and his coalition government supported by the Sweden Democrats have put forward a series of proposals to deal with illegal immigrants, immigration and naturalization, constitutional issues, and to begin the voluntary repatriation of immigrants to their ethnic homelands even if those immigrants have been naturalized as Swedish citizens.

The Reasoning: Sweden is Falling Apart

On September 28th, 2023 Sweden’s “Conservative” Prime Minister, Ulf Kristersson, gave a speech about the incredible wave of violence sweeping the nation, he said, in part:

”A 25-year-old woman went to bed yesterday - a perfectly normal night - but never woke up again. This morning she was killed in an explosion in Uppsala. My thoughts are with her and her family. 

A week ago, a 70-year-old man went to a bar in Sandviken to hang out with his friends. He was never allowed to come home again. He was blind and he was shot to death. My thoughts also go out to him and his family. 

And my thoughts go to the young man in Uppsala who was murdered one early morning in a stairwell two weeks ago, on his way to his job in home care. 

My thoughts are also with the three children – 13, 14 and 14 years old – who were found executed in forest areas outside Stockholm. Their parents have been forced to experience every parent's worst nightmare.

Now more and more children and completely innocent people are affected by the gross violence. I cannot emphasize enough how serious the situation is. Sweden has never seen anything like it before. No other country in Europe sees anything like it.”

And is it any wonder the issue required such significant attention from the Prime Minister?

Sweden has recorded a record number of shootings, bombings, and a wave of violence resulting in a multitude of female deaths. A recent report by the World Childhood Foundation, an organization founded by Her Majesty Queen Silvia of Sweden, has found widespread child sexual abuse and reports of physical violence against children in the country.

Many of the dead are immigrants and ethnic foreigners, though many of the dead are simple bystanders caught in the waves of escalating violence.

Because of this violence, the prime minister outlined a litany of policy solutions. Camera surveillance, facial recognition, and weapons detectors will become commonplace in public spaces and Swedish schools. This was almost a year ago, and now the government is moving on to much more serious measures, some of which may work to reduce crime by reducing the population of non-Swedes in the country.

Dealing with Illegal Immigration:

A committee formed by the Swedish government is currently putting together a proposed law that would require any worker associated with the Swedish state to report any contact with an illegal immigrant to Swedish authorities.

It is projected that more than one million people who work for or with the Swedish state, including doctors, dentists, teachers, government workers, care home employees, and local officials, would be affected by the new legislation. These workers and their duty to report could result in many of the over 100,000 illegal immigrants in Sweden being reported to police and effectively tracked, hopefully for deportation from the country.

Entire families of illegal aliens could be located by the Swedish state as current law allows the children of illegal alien families to attend school free of charge, and to receive regular dental care.

Some left-wing advocates have denounced the proposed law as unjust, but it is anything but from a nationalist perspective. Sweden has hosted millions of non-Swedes for decades and all the while has provided them with healthcare, education, schooling, ample payments from the Swedish welfare state, and a generally welcoming environment. If Sweden now chooses, rather rightly, to focus on the Swedish people instead of crowds of foreigners this is not an injustice but a correction of a mistaken policy.

It is also worth noting that the Swedish state has not proposed revoking the generous benefits it provides to legal and illegal immigrants while they remain in the country. Instead, immigrants will continue to receive access to healthcare, education, and other social services until they are deported. It's a more than fair arrangement.

Legal immigration:

The Swedish state has already made significant progress in dealing with the issues of legal immigration whether that be through asylum applications or simple work and residency permits.

A report published by the Swedish state on August 9th, 2024 shows that Sweden has experienced net emigration for the first time in 50 years. Asylum applications are the lowest they have been since 1997, with just 5,600 applications up to July of 2024, and numbers are projected to continue to decrease as the government tightens regulations and requirements.

Sweden’s immigration minister, Maria Malmer Stenergard, said that this net emigration and the massive reduction in arrivals would work “to strengthen integration and reduce social exclusion.”

Minister Stenergard’s view is correct, though it is likely she takes a less ethnocentric view of the matter. Regardless, a reduction in the number of non-Swedes and non-Europeans will make Sweden a more cohesive, peaceable, and sustainable country in the long term and provide an environment in which the Swedish nation can flourish.

Moreover, this emigration is necessary to make Sweden a fiscally sustainable state. The massive non-Swedish and non-European population is expected to more than double the burden placed upon Sweden’s pension system, destroying it in the medium term. Immigrants, foreigners, and their children are a net negative pull on all levels of Swedish state spending, creating massive deficits and requiring increased taxation and borrowing in order to keep the state temporarily solvent. This fact is best highlighted by the fact that immigrants receive 58% of all social welfare assistance in the country where native Swedes still constitute roughly 65% of the population.

Repatriation of Naturalized Citizens and Legal Immigrants:

Most significant, by far, is the work being done on a proposal to pay naturalized citizens of Sweden to return to their countries of origin. The Economic Times, Epoch Times, Prescott eNews, and other platforms have reported on a plan to expand Sweden’s current voluntary repatriation arrangement.

Currently, the Swedish state offers to provide would-be emigrants some $960 plus travel expenses to return to their ethnic homelands, county of origin, or another country where they have the right to (legally) reside.

The initial 158-page report recommends that the Swedish state provide up to $15,000 to immigrants, asylum seekers, and naturalized citizens to return to their homelands or countries of origin.

It is worth noting that this recommended figure is some $4,000 less than the average annual income for an asylum seeker in Sweden, but represents significant funds in a country such as Syria, Iraq, or Turkey. More specifically this repatriation grant represents seven and a half years’ worth of income in Syria, about eight years’ worth of income in Iraq, and some three years’ worth of income in Turkey (from where many Kurds in Sweden originate).

The Swedish government report recognizes that repatriation funds cannot simply be sufficient to help a person relocate from one geographic area to another but must also be able to support that person in establishing or reestablishing a quality life in their country of origin. This tracks with data that we have found on both the United States and the United Kingdom which shows that tens of millions of non-Americans and non-Britons of would like to relocate from the countries but fiscal and material limitations prevent them from doing so.

Sweden appears to be the first country to recognize this limitation and to be putting forward serious solutions to overcome it and begin a process of serious repatriation of non-Swedes and non-Europeans.

The proposal suggests that means testing for potential repatriates be abandoned so that any non-Swede who wishes to relocate to their homeland or country of origin is free to receive the funds to do so and logistical support be provided to all regardless of income.

Suggested Improvements:

It is here worth mentioning that the report’s authors feel that have “failed” to find ways to increase emigration from Sweden, but they only feel they have failed because there is no evidence of a similar repatriation scheme in any other country. This is correct, but it may not be accurate.

Sweden could pioneer many of the repatriation-based proposals that nationalists, populists, right wingers, and immigration patriots have championed for decades and which we have put forward in extensive detail.

The Swedish state should increase the repatriation amount to some $30,000 at the very least. Thereby providing decades’ worth of financial security to those who leave the country and saving the Swedish state billions over decades when they are no longer responsible for these immigrants each year.

The Swedish government should leverage the ethnicity and race-based organizations present in the country to create support networks for those repatriating to reintegrate into their homelands. The report’s authors go so far as to mention that they contacted ethnicity-based organizations when writing the report on repatriation and they should expand on these relationships where possible or create alternative organizations to facilitate the state’s repatriation goals.

Finally, the Swedish state should make this repatriation program known through a sort of “media blitz” where ministers, government officials, and other representatives post on social media, and appear on television, talk shows, radio shows, and in print newspapers. The Swedish state could even go so far as mailing an informational letter on the repatriation program to every household in Sweden, a practice the government already undertakes with emergency preparedness documents.

If the Swedish state could manage to repatriate just 25% of the non-European population in the country (about 750,000 people) the native Swedish population would increase from 65% to 70% of the demographic total and the European population would increase to somewhere around 78% of the total population.

A serious, widespread, widely publicized, and well-funded program of repatriation could reverse the tide of demographic change in Sweden and save that nation from a path of chaos, violence, and economic insolvency.

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