Subj : Re: Fixed
To   : AARON THOMAS
From : Mike Powell
Date : Wed Nov 29 2023 11:34:00

>  MP> > Open borders in Sweden? Just like here?
>  MP>
>  MP> In their case, I don't think they are flooding over open land borders
>  MP> like they do here, if that is what you mean.
>  MP>
>  MP> A few years back, before COVID, Europe dealt with a mass influx of
>  MP> immigrants from Syria, other areas of the Middle East, and Africa.  Some
>  MP> countries were very skeptical about taking too many in because they did
>  MP> not have the resources of their other European neighbors.  Other
>  MP> countries gladly welcomed them.  Sweden was apparently in the second
>  MP> group.

> Thanks for these details. I wish our undocumented migrants came from such coun
> ies as those instead of coming from central America. They have a bunch of reli
> ous migrants and we have a bunch of stabby drug dealing gang member migrants.

A little more detail, but simplified...

Sweden is a member of the EU.  During that time period, the EU determined
that each country should take their fair share of the migrants.  The way
they were entering the EU would normally be considered illegal... by land,
like they do here, and by boat... but it didn't sound like the EU were
treating them as illegal.

Some countries, like Poland, Hungary, Slovenia, and maybe even Spain, were
skeptical about receiving them.  As mentioned before, they were concerned
as they were not as well off as their EU neighbors.  The EU blew off their
concerns as "nationalism."  OTOH, Sweden and other countries gladly took
their share.

We actually discussed this some here at the time.  Someone tried to claim
that the videos of immigrants trying to illegally enter Spain over an African
land border had to be fake because Spain has no land border in Africa.  I
pointed out they were not correct as Spain does include land on the African
side of the Mediterranean that has land borders with Morocco.


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