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British widow, 78, told to leave Sweden under Brexit rules after living there for 21 years (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

In general immigration enforcement institutions are about as ghoulish as banks so there's no reason to give them the benefit of the doubt, especially these days, but also as the article notes Sweden is very heavy-handed here. See:

According to the most recent European Commission annual report on implementation of the WA, almost 4,000 applicants for post-Brexit residency status in Sweden were refused, out of 14,200 made.

By contrast, Bulgaria, which has a similar number of applicants at around 16,000, refused just five people, and Belgium, which had 13,000 applicants, refused 605, according to the same report.

According to FCDO analysis, Sweden’s refusal rate of 27.5% is three times higher than any other member state and considerably higher than the EU average of between 3% and 4%

Deporting as many people as possible seems to be a deliberate policy choice—not surprising considering who's running the show over there, but it does mean there's no reason to think this woman was shown any flexibility.

[–] Dojan@pawb.social 2 points 2 weeks ago

Deporting as many people as possible seems to be a deliberate policy choice

Nailed it. That's exactly the platform that the Sweden Democrats ran on when they became the second largest party in parliament back in 2022. They still became the backing for the current government, because a significant portion of parliament does not wish to work with them due to them being nazis, hence why the Moderates (the third largest party) formed government.

It still gives the nazis a massive influence over the politics, and in the past four years they've unsurprisingly made big strides in passing policies that serve to get immigrants out of Sweden.