Swedish Moderate party MP Louise Meijer apologised to the public for her prior stance on free borders. She claims that by “pleading for openness and refugees [being] welcome,” she has made mistakes and regrets them, reports Brussels Signal.
Meijer claims in this week’s Expressen editorial post that she “changed her mind” about her beliefs.
“Now, instead, I am advocating an even stricter migration policy than the one I opposed at the time,” she says, reports Brussels Signal.
Sweden’s political views on immigration have quickly changed; social democratic leaders now declare that they want more stringent immigration laws.
Sweden today is a “completely different country than it was at the end of the 20th century”.
Per capita, it has “received the most immigrants in the Western world” in modern times, Meijer writes.
Today, “more than a third of Sweden’s population has a foreign background. In 1987, the corresponding figure was 11 per cent, reports Brussels Signal.
Meijer leads her party in the Justice Committee of the Swedish Parliament and is a member of Ulf Kristersson’s party, the prime minister.
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