Ayla, 21, Jomana, 18, and Ilya, 19, came to Sweden as children, though at different ages and under different circumstances. Today they face the same reality: all have been ordered to leave the country alone while their families remain.
These cases stem from Sweden’s increasingly restrictive migration policy, under which young people who turn 18 before obtaining permanent residency are no longer considered part of their parents’ family unit. The Swedish Migration Agency states that residency based on parental ties is granted only in exceptional cases involving “special dependency.” A normal parent-child relationship is not sufficient.
On February 17, 2025, a multiparty proposal to stop these deportations did not gain a majority in the Parliamentary Committee on Social Insurance, despite cross-party recognition that the practice separates families.
I voted for this party once, not because I support all their policies, but because at the height of the migration psychosis, they were the ONLY party to campaign to lower migration, even just a little.
I voted as a protest against the established partys complete and utter refusal to even debate the issue.
I felt as if we were giving up everything in our country to please an unlimited stream of foreigners who we needed to feed and house out of pocket.
I am not against migration, absolutely not, I strongly believe that we should help other people, we should absolutely take in refugees, as long as we have the resources to help.
And I didn’t see that we had enough at that time, I also believe that there was a lot of people throwing away their documentation and lied about their age to get to migrate here under false pretenses.
These days I would never vote for them, in the elections since then, I have never voted for them since.