Sweden offers up to 37,000 to foreign-born residents to leave ahead of elections
Sweden’s right-wing coalition government is paying foreign-born residents with non-EU residency permits up to 350,000 Swedish crowns ($37,000) to leave the country, part of a strict immigration crackdown ahead of elections this month. The program, budgeted at 1.3 billion crowns, has been promoted in multiple languages on government websites and in advertisements funded by the far-right Sweden Democrats, including bus ads targeting Somali immigrants with the message, “Do you miss Mogadishu? The remigration grant will help you get home.”
Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson has stated that “improving re-migration is high on my government’s agenda.” The scheme aligns with the coalition’s 2022 pledge to reduce immigration and crime, a stance that has contributed to a 96% drop in asylum applications since 2015, when Sweden accepted 163,000 asylum seekers—the second-highest per capita in Europe at the time.
So far this year, only 171 people have accepted the offer, according to reporting. The initiative has drawn support from far-right parties across Europe, including Germany’s Alternative for Germany (AfD), whose European Parliament lawmaker Mary Khan-Hohloch called it a model for addressing migration burdens. The Sweden Democrats, who back the government in parliament, have pushed the program through ads in migrant-heavy areas since July.
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