The idea of repatriating migrants – first put forward by the Alternative for Sweden party ahead of the 2018 elections – has been gaining momentum across Sweden.
In a recent opinion piece in Sweden’s daily newspaper Aftonbladet, Jimmie Åkesson, the leader of the nationalist-populist Sweden Democrats, called for “more reality-based immigration politics”. He also urged Swedes to overhaul any previously held perceptions on migration that they may have had in the past.
In the piece, Åkesson blames what he refers to as the man-made migrant crisis in Sweden on the ruling Social Democrats. At the same time, Åkesson welcomed the center-right Moderate party’s recent call to reduce asylum immigration, but ultimately referred to the proposal as “unambitious”.
For Åkesson, so long as the current situation in Sweden remains as problematic as it is today, the government should look to reduce the number of asylum seekers that it accepts down to zero.
Åkesson also contends that the formation of so-called ‘parallel societies’ should be made impossible, while migrants who live in Sweden illegally must be persuaded in some way to leave the country. In the case that they refuse to leave, Åkesson says that they should be identified and taken into police custody pending their eventual expulsion from the country.
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