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Sweden proposes bill giving citizenship only
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Posted By: NorthernDog, 4/8/2021 9:37:14 PM

Sweden's centre-left government has submitted a bill to parliament which will for the first time require those seeking permanent residency to prove they can speak the language. “We think that a basic knowledge of Swedish and knowledge of society is a reasonable demand to make,” said the country's Justice Minister Morgan Johansson, adding that incomers would have to prove they can support themselves. He said that the new migration policy had been designed to be tougher than the loose regime which was in place before the migration crisis in 2015, when 160,000 people sought asylum in the country, more per

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No permanent residency either until they meet a variety of citizenship requirements.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Sanddollar 4/8/2021 9:43:25 PM (No. 748949)
I wish that would be true in the U.S. One common language is important for national unity.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: TXknitter 4/8/2021 10:01:48 PM (No. 748953)
I read an article that one thing about Swedes is true when it comes to immigration. They saw the destruction that groups of third world people who live in their own enclaves, hate Sweden and Swedes, and refuse to assimilate have caused the past eight to ten years. They learned and they are at least trying to plug some gaping holes in immigration policy. This is a good start. We should have been firm long ago in making English the USA’s official language.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: mizzmac 4/8/2021 10:11:23 PM (No. 748961)
Apparently the Swedes aren't afraid to be called racists.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: DVC 4/8/2021 10:25:02 PM (No. 748968)
Still too easy.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: chumley 4/8/2021 11:31:27 PM (No. 748994)
It would really help if they looked like Swedes too. If a picture taken downtown looks more like Capetown than Stockholm, you have a huge problem.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Lawsy0 4/8/2021 11:32:45 PM (No. 748998)
Are the Swedes smarter than we are, or just less liberal?
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Reply 7 - Posted by: TulsaTowner 4/8/2021 11:55:21 PM (No. 749009)
Perhaps a bit too late.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: bighambone 4/9/2021 12:36:29 AM (No. 749020)
The USA Democrats would never go along with anything like the Swedish socialists are doing. Because the Democrats absolutely do not want national unity, and instead the Democrats are intent on putting everyone in some social slot, based upon, age, ethnicity, gender, or race.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: lakerman1 4/9/2021 8:46:20 AM (No. 749253)
All four of my grandparents immigrated to the U.S. back around 1900, from Poland.. (actually from Russia, since Poland did not exist from 1790 to 1920.) Not one of them attained citizenship, because they didn't speak English or understand it well enough to make it through the citizenship test.
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