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The IT company Mullvad’s founder Daniel Berntsson is behind a giant donation to the populist Örebro Party, which advocates “comprehensive re-immigration” from Sweden. “It’s sad that it’s needed,” he told Flamman.
~ https://www.flamman.se/techprofil-ger-miljoner-till-orebropartiet/


But that’s such a vague term that it’s meaningless to draw any conclusion without seeing what the proposal is.
For example, is the re-immigration voluntary or forced? To what degree does it apply? For example, is it just for illegal immigrations, legal immigrants, or does it also include naturalized citizens? Is it race, ethnicity, religious based, or is it based on universal secular principles? Does it ensure safety of the people re-immigrating? There is a lot to it.
Depending on this is implemented, there might not be any issue with it at all. For example, I’m an Iraqi immigrant in the US. I have a lot of family in Sweden. There are a lot of Iraqi immigrants who don’t like living in Sweden and would like to return to Iraq, however, they can’t either because they lack the means to do so or they’re not sure if their safety is guaranteed. There are people who like Sweden, but want to return to Iraq anyway because they think its better, but they’re afraid they might lose their Swedish immigration status and benefits. I feel like its reasonable to have a program in place to assist these people return to their home countries if they so desire it.
On the flip side, there are some people who don’t deserve to be there. For example, there’s a lot of people there who have had their asylum cases rejected for either being violent criminals or doing some other shady activities, but they still got there anyway by smuggling themselves in to the country illegally. There’s a lot, and I mean, A LOT, of people there who are only because of fraudulent asylum cases. These people used fake documents, fake cases, and even fake relatives to get into the country. I feel like it’s reasonable for any country to deport people like this because they’re criminals who aren’t supposed to be in the country in the first place.
There’s also cases where it depends on the case. For example, there are quite a lot of people who went to Sweden specifically just to leech off of their generous welfare benefits. These are people who could work, study, learn the language, and assimilate, but they actively refuse to do so. Instead they pretend that they’re disabled and desperate in order to collect government benefits indefinitely. I think the most egregious of these cases, should be grounds for deportation. There are some individuals who got there legally and for genuine reasons but they committed after getting their immigration status, I think the more heinous cases where the crime is something like rape or murder, that should also be ground for deportation. There also quite a lot of people who genuinely hate Sweden. Not in the sense, they dislike the lifestyle or don’t understand the culture, but in the sense that they want to see the country destroyed. A lot of these tend be the more religious nut types who go out of their way to undermine Swedish laws, freedoms, and culture, get involved with extremist groups, and incite hate and extremist acts. I think these people should also be on the radar of such a program, where they forcibly deport the criminals and try to talk with the most incompatible individuals about consider re-immigrations.
I personally know people who fall into every single one of these situations, that’s why I used them as examples. I think it’s reasonable for Sweden to have comprehensive policy to address it. In fact, I think it would be naive and damaging to pretend there is no issue and do absolutely nothing. Immigration policy is not fascism, that’s just basic sovereignty. It only becomes fascism when they try to relocate people who don’t want to leave and haven’t done anything wrong just because of their race, ethnicity, or religion. But this is only an extreme scenario, and i think it’s foolish to pretend that all immigration policy is this type of fascism because it’s not.