On June 15, the Swedish Riksdag formally approved legislation introducing “good conduct” requirements for immigrants, allowing visas to be retracted or denied to those who are guilty of “bad conduct” (bristande vandel in Swedish). Critics, including the United Nations, prominent NGOs, and much of international media, have derided the law; Amnesty International went so far as to call it a “race law” and compared it to South African apartheid. They could not be more wrong.
Since taking power in 2022, a right-wing coalition government, supported by the national conservative Sweden Democrats, has taken significant steps to close Sweden’s open borders. Asylum migration is down by more than half, while deportations and voluntary returns have skyrocketed. And Sweden’s strict approach to migration enforcement has shown concrete results: Before this year, Sweden hadn’t had a single month without deadly shootings since at least 2016 (when monthly records began). So far this year, the country has had two.
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