What America Can Learn from Sweden’s Immigration Failures

Sweden erred by accepting too many immigrants, regardless of economic demand, who were forced by NIMBYism into ethnically segregated enclaves.

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Police organize a line of refugees from trains arriving from Denmark at the Hyllie station outside Malmo, Sweden, November 19, 2015.

Johan Nilsson/TT News Agency/via Reuters

Most Americans are aware by now that Sweden is struggling with immigration. Among conservative Americans, Sweden — long held up by the Left as a role model — is today frequently used as a cautionary tale of what can happen if borders are left open.

Meanwhile, pundits on the left are scratching their heads wondering how such a tolerant and progressive people could have suddenly turned against helpless refugees, going as far as to elect a right-wing government supported by the national conservative Sweden Democrats party (of which, in full disclosure, I’m a member).

JG

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John Gustavsson

John Gustavsson is a writer from Sweden and holds a doctorate in economics. He is Senior Editor of Nation & Citizenship at Restoring the West and a former adviser to the Sweden Democrats in the European Parliament.

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