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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.

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[–] mumblerfish@lemmy.world 31 points 2 months ago (3 children)

The far-right party here has a youtube channel, and they make videos about how every single person with two foreign born parents do not belong, as well as half of everyone with a single foreign born parent. They are a party started by neo-nazis and an actual SS nazi. The current government is working with them to establish these policies. One of the ministers have an active neo-nazi son, and that is simply accepted. It is horrific what these monsters are doing.

[–] birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Far right politicians should be deported to Antarctica

[–] KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

And the Swedes voted for them, they're generally racist towards people from the Middle East.

I was going to stay until I got citizenship but with the new anti immigrant rules coming in, I think I'm just going to leave this god forsaken place.

Every time I go on sweddit for a bit, I'm reminded of how racist and anti immigrant they are.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

i'm so sorry.

i used to be on sweddit a lot until about two election cycles ago. something changed when the so-called migrant crisis happened. at the start of 2018, a lot of the old guard started posting less and a new wave of users came in that shifted the entire community wildly right. now it just feels like another flashback, but filled with bots.

also (as you probably know, but just for the sake of everyone else) people outside the three big cities in sweden basically live in the woods and almost never meet non-"ethnic swedes" (as sd loves to call them) and just get fed fearmongering shit on social media. it's a stark divide.

[–] mumblerfish@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Very much so. Just the other week or so their party leader had a -- probably completely made up -- "dream" he spoke openly about, in which he was chased by some insanely racist caricature of a muslim. The reaction was just "haha, quirky", from basically everyone. That racism is so open and accepted now.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

the current big talking point is about an 8-month old that is supposed to be deported alone and a family with an 8-year old that is supposed to be deported despite making enough money to stay, because the wrong parent is the earner.

i can only hope this is malicious compliance because the bureau enforcing it is displaying the actual text to everybody to show that there is no room for misinterpretation.

the media keeps asking the mp's who pushed for this law if this is what they wanted and they keep saying no.

[–] 0xtero@beehaw.org 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But they're all afraid to say anything or trying to stop it because they think the Swedish people will vote for the Nazi party if they don't keep deporting immigrants. It's all just game to get votes and appear anti-immigration. Sweden really is the European mini-U.S.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 1 points 2 months ago

if the election goes their way it's 99.9% they'll have to form a coalition government just like they tried to last time, and the other parts of the right still don't want to do that, not to mention that they've all shrunk in the polls.

the left is polling at like 54% but they also don't want to form a coalition because the center party thinks the nazis and the leftists are equally bad. this election is going to be a shitshow.

[–] The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org 4 points 2 months ago

somewhere Stephen Miller just orgasmed

[–] reksas@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 months ago

peculiar way to deal with the aging pyramid crisis..