European Country To Offer Immigrants $30,000+ To Leave

Sweden is offering immigrants a high price tag to voluntarily depart the country and return home.

The Swedish government announced Thursday that certain immigrants who leave will be eligible to receive up to 350,000 Swedish kronor ($34,000) per family.

The policy is set to take effect in 2026.

Sweden says to pay immigrants up to $34,000 to leave https://t.co/nsSdiVMQfu

— Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) September 12, 2024

According to TRT World, the new policy is a “substantial increase from the current grant of up to $970 per adult and $485 per child.”

BREAKING: The right-wing Swedish government will now pay people $34.000 to remigrate back to their home countries.

Something big is happening.

— PeterSweden (@PeterSweden7) September 13, 2024

Per TRT World:

During a press conference on September 12, Sweden’s migration Minister Johan Forssell described the new policy as a “paradigm shift” in the Nordic country which in 2015 opened its borders to 162,877 asylum seekers, mostly of Syrian, Afghan, and Iraqi descent as a “humanitarian superpower”.

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The grant system, implemented in 1984, was intended to provide financial incentives for immigrants to voluntarily return to their home countries, yet, only one person took the existing offer last year, according to Forssell.

If more people were aware of the grant and its size was increased, more would likely accept the offer, Ludvig Aspling of the Sweden Democrats told reporters.

WATCH:

Sweden to increase grants for immigrants who agree to go home

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— WION (@WIONews) September 13, 2024

$34,000 dollars might seem like a lot, but the lifetime cost of an individual migrant remaining in Sweden will be 100s of 1000s of $. These payments will be massive savings in the long run. Financial incentives are not a cop-out: they’re a great way to get rid of migrants. https://t.co/fXDw4qjjsX

— RAW EGG NATIONALIST (@Babygravy9) September 12, 2024

Newsweek reports:

It is unclear what the exact criteria to receive the new sums of money will be. Newsweek contacted the Swedish government and the Sweden Democrats for comment via email.

The Swedish government’s decision to dramatically increase the amount paid to migrants who leave came despite the policy being criticized last month in a report from a government appointed probe, which argued the benefits don’t justify the costs.

According to the AFP news agency a number of other European countries already have schemes that pay migrants to return to their home countries, with offers of around $2,000 in Germany, $2,800 in France, $1,400 in Norway and more than $15,000 in Denmark.

Since coming to power the new Swedish government has tightened asylum and other immigration rules, as a result of which the country is on track to receive its lowest number of asylum applications since 1997 this year according to the Swedish Migration Agency.

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According to the government agency Sweden received 5,600 asylum applications up to July 28 this year, and Statistics Sweden estimates it will record net emigration for the first time in half a century.

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