"Refugees find door to Sweden closing" by Kim Murphy, Los Angeles Times | July 21, 2008
SODERTALJE, Sweden - Amid a refugee flood that has taxed even this Scandinavian nation's traditional liberal compassion, Sweden has dramatically narrowed the standards for granting asylum to people from Iraq, Afghanistan, and Somalia.
Swede's must be racist, huh?
And considering the Zionist-control over the AmeriKan MSM papers, it is not surprising that "refugees" and "immigrants" would be spotlighted, no?
Makes you think of WWII and the Kews, right?
Never mind that AmeriKa CREATED THESE REFUGEES!!!!
The change in policy stems from a new immigration law and an appeals court ruling this year that found, incredibly to many Swedes and refugee advocates, that legally there is no internal armed conflict in Iraq - allowing deportation of asylum seekers to their home country.
For hundreds of refugees across Sweden, the deportation orders seem to amount to death sentences. "How can we go back? After what happened to us, Iraq to me was no longer a country," Naseir, who does not want his last name published, said as he slumped over at a coffee shop one recent afternoon to hide the tears streaming down his face.
It's called liberation, dude!
Last year, more than 18,500 Iraqis sought asylum in Sweden. By comparison, the United States processed 734 Iraqi asylum applicants in 2007, and Britain handled 2,075, although these countries are the main military forces in the war.
Sweden initially granted residency permits to nearly all Iraqis who applied, and even last year 72 percent of Iraqi asylum seekers obtained permission to stay. Those granted residency are eligible for 18 months of Swedish-language and employment-skills training, plus about $1,490 a month (reduced to $360 after 18 months) in cash benefits.
Nowhere has the Iraqi migration been felt more than here in Sodertalje, an industrial town of 83,000 people south of Stockholm.
The city has been flooded with refugees from Iraq, mainly Christian Assyrians who have been among the most heavily threatened populations since the war began in 2003.
Another BUSH LIBERATION, 'eh?
Starting to believe he IS the Anti-Christ, aren't you?
Naseir is a member of another threatened Iraqi minority, the Mandaeans, who revere John the Baptist.
Since 2006, nearly 7,000 Iraqis have streamed into town, and 1,200 more are expected this year. Combined with other mainly Christian immigrants who fled in earlier years from Iraq, Syria and Turkey, foreign-born residents and their children now make up nearly 40 percent of the city's population.
The city has urged authorities to settle new immigrants in other parts of the country, where they are more likely to find jobs and apartments.
Some say the newcomers are overwhelming the city, taking up apartments and driving down wages for those who can find jobs.--MORE--"
Then the Swedes are a bunch of racist assholes, right, Zionist press?
By the way, readers, there were no VIOLENCE or BATTLEFIELD REPORTS in the paper; otherwise, I would have posted it!
Nice going, AmeriKan MSM!
Way to PUSH the AGENDA and HIDE the WARS!!!!!
