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- europe@feddit.org
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- europe@feddit.org
Sweden’s parliament passed a law on Monday allowing authorities to revoke immigrants’ residency permits based on bad behaviour, such as having unpaid debts, doing undeclared work or links to extremist organisations.
The law, which covers pending permits but also retroactively already granted permits, is part of a wider tightening of immigration rules by the right-wing government and its support party, the nationalist Sweden Democrats, ahead of a parliamentary election in September.
The law has been criticised by the opposition and human rights advocacy groups as arbitrary because decisions would be taken on behaviour that has not been deemed criminal.
This is the hard choices between being humanitarian towards immigrants, and protecting a country against negative influences from culturally different people.
Netherlands, Italy and Denmark have been seen as extreme right wing on these issues, because we are trying to protect the quality of our societies by preventing disruption from outside negative influences.
Whatever the right balance is, it seem that more and more countries are following the example of these countries, and are trying to limit negative outside influence.
Clearly respect for democracy and protection of minorities should be respected by immigrants, and immigrants coming from different cultures that do not have this respect as part of their culture is a democratic problem for more developed cultures.
We should not accept an outside culture to influence our societies negatively based on their religious or cultural inheritance, and becoming a significant minority that demand their immoral outdated values to be respected equally to what we have fought against since the 70’s.
Then make it a requirement of entry. Or - and I can’t stress this enough - shut the fuck up about it.
“Oh we let you in and you haven’t done anything wrong legally but we just realised we don’t like you so please leave.”
Grow the fuck up. Change the rules fairly or deal with the consequences of your actions.
Not you personally, obviously. This argument is just pathetic.
Like if you don’t want asylum seekers or immigrants, just say so. Pull out of the conventions. Change the laws. Do whatever. But don’t accept people in and then act like they’re the problem rather than your own short sightedness (and, often, straight out racism).