Swedish PM says integration of immigrants has failed, fueled gang crime

who knew this would happen? everyone.

Swedish PM says integration of immigrants has failed, fueled gang crime

https://www.yahoo.com/news/swedish-p...132727996.html



FILE PHOTO: Clashes with police in Malmo

Thu, April 28, 2022, 8:27 AM

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden has failed to integrate the vast numbers of immigrants it has taken in over the past two decades, leading to parallel societies and gang violence, Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson said on Thursday, as she launched a series of initiatives to combat organised crime.


Many Swedes were shocked earlier this month after violent riots left more than 100 police injured. The violence erupted after a Swedish-Danish politician burned the Quran at a rally and sought to hold more in several immigrant-dominated neighborhoods.


Andersson blamed criminals and said both Islamism and right-wing extremism had been allowed to fester in Sweden, in unusually frank and self-critical comments.
"Segregation has been allowed to go so far that we have parallel societies in Sweden. We live in the same country but in completely different realities," Andersson told a news conference.


The number of people in Sweden born abroad has doubled in the last two decades to 2 million, or a fifth of the population. Andersson's Social Democrats have been in power for 28 of the last 40 years, including the last eight.


Andersson said she wanted to introduce local youth crime boards where social services and police could collaborate. She also proposed tools to make sure that youths stayed in schools and off the streets without the consent of parents.


"Integration has been too poor at the same time as we have had a large immigration. Society has been too weak, resources for the police and social services have been too weak," she said.


Sweden, which holds a general election later this year, has radically tightened its immigration policies since taking in more people per capita than any other European Union country during the migration crisis in 2015. It now has one of the bloc's most restrictive policies.


Human rights organisation Amnesty International has been critical of Sweden's tightening of policies, claiming it is causing human suffering and making integration even harder for immigrants.


(Reporting by Johan Ahlander; Editing by Tomasz Janowski)

Yeh, we’ll, welcome to the real world, Sweden.

Good to know others keep up internationally. A year later . . .



Swedish government proposes tightening immigration laws


By Euronews with AFP • 09/04/2021


https://www.euronews.com/2021/04/09/...migration-laws

The measures were introduced in Sweden following the 2015 migration crisis and were extended to 2019 as political parties struggled to reach an agreement on a long-term solution. The temporary rules are set to expire this summer.

At least they gave it a shot.









Who's gonna wash the dishes now?

Merkel says German multicultural society has failed

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-11559451


Attempts to build a multicultural society in Germany have "utterly failed", Chancellor Angela Merkel says.

She said the so-called "multikulti" concept - where people would "live side-by-side" happily - did not work, and immigrants needed to do more to integrate - including learning German.


The comments come amid rising anti-immigration feeling in Germany.


A recent survey suggested more than 30% of people believed the country was "overrun by foreigners".


The study - by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation think-tank - also showed that roughly the same number thought that some 16 million of Germany's immigrants or people with foreign origins had come to the country for its social benefits.


Foreign workers


Mrs Merkel told a gathering of younger members of her conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party on Saturday that at "the beginning of the 60s our country called the foreign workers to come to Germany and now they live in our country."



She added: "We kidded ourselves a while, we said: 'They won't stay, sometime they will be gone', but this isn't reality."


"And of course, the approach [to build] a multicultural [society] and to live side-by-side and to enjoy each other... has failed, utterly failed."


In her speech in Potsdam, however, the chancellor made clear that immigrants were welcome in Germany.


She specifically referred to recent comments by German President Christian Wulff who said that Islam was "part of Germany", like Christianity and Judaism.


Mrs Merkel said: "We should not be a country either which gives the impression to the outside world that those who don't speak German immediately or who were not raised speaking German are not welcome here."


Mounting debate


There has been intense debate about multiculturalism in Germany in recent months.


Correspondents say Mrs Merkel faces pressure from within her CDU and its allies to take a tougher stance and require immigrants to do more to adapt to German society.


Earlier this week, Horst Seehofer, the leader of the CDU's Bavarian sister party, the CSU, said it was "obvious that immigrants from different cultures like Turkey and Arab countries, all in all, find it harder" to integrate.


"'Multikulti' is dead," Mr Seehofer said.


Earlier this month the chancellor held talks with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in which the two leaders pledged to do more to improve the often poor integration record of Germany's estimated 2.5 million-strong Turkish community
.

The debate first heated up in August when Thilo Sarrazin, a senior official at Germany's central bank, said that "no immigrant group other than Muslims is so strongly connected with claims on the welfare state and crime". Mr Sarrazin has since resigned.


Such recent strong anti-immigration feelings from mainstream politicians come amid an anger in Germany about high unemployment, even if the economy is growing faster than those of its rivals, our correspondent says.


He adds that there also seems to be a new strident tone in the country, perhaps leading to less reticence about no-go-areas of the past.

Yeh, we’ll, welcome to the real world, Sweden. Originally Posted by Jackie S

... See? ... And THAT is why we Australians back in
the olde country are so selective on who comes in.

... One of your BEST posts ever, mate.

#### Salty

... See? ... And THAT is why we Australians back in
the olde country are so selective on who comes in.

... One of your BEST posts ever, mate.

#### Salty Originally Posted by Salty Again

Prison colony.

You should never have been allowed to emigrate…according to your butt buddies.

America never really was a melting pot.

America never really was a melting pot. Originally Posted by VitaMan

That's because we never turned up the heat,lol.

I have been reliably informed that "Diversity is out strength." Although there has never been any evidence presented to back that up and the limited science on the subject indicates just the opposite.

I have been reliably informed that "Diversity is out strength." Although there has never been any evidence presented to back that up and the limited science on the subject indicates just the opposite. Originally Posted by texassapper

[QUOTE=The_Waco_Kid;1062827450]Merkel says German multicultural society has failed
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In related news, Boris Becker sentenced to 2 1/2 years in the clinker.

Originally Posted by Yssup Rider

ftfy

If you say so, Wiz.



BTW - I've visited Malmo. They had an ikea.

If you say so, Wiz.



BTW - I've visited Malmo. They had an ikea. Originally Posted by Yssup Rider

did you have the swedish meatballs while you were there?

No, but instead of being named Bjorn or Oleg, their patio furniture line was named Bubba, to make it seem more exotic.

Didn't see any filthy gangbangers there though.

HAHAHAHAHAHAAHAH!