Sweden is offering migrants in the country about $34,000 to leave the country if they choose to return to their home country. Is this a good idea or a bad one? Is this the right thing to do? And what will they do with the money?
00:00:21.220The Swedish government announced on Thursday that it will increase grants for immigrants who choose to return to their home countries voluntarily, despite a government-appointed inquiry's recommendation last month against a significant increase.
00:00:33.820Starting in 2026, immigrants who choose to leave Sweden voluntarily will be eligible for a financial assistance of up to 350,000 Swedish kronor, which is approximately $34,000, up from the current 10,000 kronor, which is about, what, a little bit over $1,000.
00:00:54.040Under the current law, migrants returning home can get a maximum of 10,000 kronor per adult or 5,000 kronor per child, with a maximum of 40,000 kronor per family.
00:01:05.160We are in the midst of a paradigm shift in our migration policy, Migration Minister Johan Foschel said at a press conference in Stockholm.
00:01:12.480According to Ludwig Asping of the anti-immigrant Sweden Democrats, the grant has been available since 1984 and is, quote,
00:01:20.300relatively unknown, small, and used by very few people.
00:01:24.380However, he now believes that the heavily promoting substantially increased financial assistance would encourage more people to accept the offer to leave the Scandinavian country.
00:01:45.800I mean, that should be money for Swedish families or Swedes to start businesses.
00:01:49.440And also, what are they going to do to ensure that they don't come back?
00:01:52.680Because, of course, they're going to do all kinds of trickery and lying to try and, oh, I'll get that money and leave, and then they'll probably come back.
00:01:59.800So I haven't seen anything about this, but I'd love to read a little bit more in detail, because obviously you would have to have something like a DNA test or something.
00:02:06.620Like, literally take the DNA of these people, store it in the database, and when you have new asylum seekers come in, take their DNA as well and run that against your database.
00:02:15.920And so, no, sorry, you've already been here, because, as you said, they will abuse, okay, I'll take the 34,000, go home for vacation for a little bit, and then I'll come back in without any documents and claim asylum again.
00:02:26.440And they'll do it four, five, six, ten times.
00:02:28.880You know it's going to be abused, unless, of course, they really are hard-lined to this.
00:02:32.640Now, the light at the end of the tunnel here, of course, is that it does open up to this idea, huh, okay, we can get them out of the country.
00:02:42.360Now, the second phase of a controversial plan to deport Afghan refugees from Pakistan is set to begin.
00:02:48.980More than 800,000 Afghans could be expelled.
00:02:52.160If they don't leave voluntarily, they will face arrest and deportation.
00:02:56.500More than 541,000 were forced to leave in the initial phase, which began last November.
00:03:02.880Around 3.1 million Afghan refugees are still living in Pakistan.
00:03:07.440An estimated 1.7 million of them are undocumented.
00:03:12.480But doesn't this also then kind of contradict this idea?
00:03:15.060I mean, we know this, but I'm saying in the, like, in normie mind here, right, looking at this.
00:03:19.560Wait a minute, weren't these people in our countries to begin with?
00:03:22.620If, maybe not in every case, I get this idea of, like, oh, we're helping or whatever.
00:03:26.700But in many regards, they're here to, like, boost our GDP, and they're here to do the jobs we don't want to do, blah, blah, blah.
00:03:33.160Now you're literally giving them more money to become then not the economic benefit to your country.
00:03:39.640Because it's cheaper than paying out all the welfare for that year.
00:04:31.680And then they go back on the dole and take advantage of the social welfare system in Sweden.
00:04:35.620It does say here that they need to return home to their home countries, right?
00:04:39.680So it could be that there's some type of deal, you would imagine, with other European countries or something, not just to get them to leave.
00:04:46.020But it's still, as much as I hate that, and yes, it will probably be abused.
00:04:51.220At least we're talking about them leaving.
00:04:53.620It's more about the fact that this is a discussion in mainstream politics as opposed to the misfirings of this that could happen.
00:05:02.020I mean, at the end of the day, money, it doesn't matter.
00:05:08.140I'd rather be poor and have our own ethnic homogenous nations than be, like, not that that is the case, what I'm saying, but them being wealthy and have them in our country.
00:05:45.220There's going to be a lot who are going to, no, we'll stay and complain about how racist Swedes are, even though they're offering us money to leave this awful racist place.