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Sweden — The Left's Immigration Utopia — Is Now Kicking People Out for Bad Behavior

For years, "be more like Sweden" was the progressive answer to every immigration debate. Open borders, generous benefits, cultural tolerance. Europe's humanitarian superstar.

Sweden has a different answer now.

Last month, the Swedish parliament voted 302 to 44 to allow the government to revoke residence permits from migrants who misbehave. Not just serious criminals — migrants who fail to meet basic behavioral standards can now be told their invitation to stay has been rescinded.

Migration Minister Johan Forssell put it plainly: "Anyone who doesn't make the effort to do the right thing shouldn't be able to count on staying."

That sentence would end a political career in Washington in about a news cycle. In Stockholm, it passed with nearly seven-to-one support.

Sweden didn't get here from ideology. By the early 2020s, the country had recorded some of the highest per-capita rates of gang gun violence in Western Europe. Grenade attacks became frequent enough that Swedish police launched a dedicated counter-gang taskforce. Malmö and Gothenburg developed what Swedish officials themselves began calling "parallel societies" — neighborhoods where Swedish law had effectively lost the street.

Sweden's parliament didn't debate whether this happened. They voted on what to do about it.

The new law is part of a broader package. The residency requirement for citizenship jumps from five years to eight. Work permits now require a salary at 90 percent of Sweden's median wage — closing the low-wage loophole that kept the revolving door open. And for migrants who want to leave voluntarily, the government will pay them up to 350,000 Swedish kronor to do it.

That last one is worth a second read. Sweden — the humanitarian superstar — will now write you a generous check to go home.

The Sweden Democrats, the party that spent two decades being called far-right extremists for proposing exactly this, celebrated the vote as a fulfilled campaign promise. They went from 2.9 percent of the vote in 2006 to coalition partners by 2022. The country didn't change its mind in a think tank. It changed its mind by living through the consequences of the previous policy.

The only votes against came from the Left Party and the Green Party. Forty-four votes, total.

That's not opposition. That's a rounding error.

As ZeroHedge and Remix News reported, Sweden joins Denmark, Finland, and a growing bloc of European nations that have concluded what a decade of evidence already showed: the countries that absorbed unlimited migration first are now writing the policy manuals for the ones still catching up.

The "be more like Sweden" argument is still valid.

It just doesn't mean what it used to.

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