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Sweden’s immigration crackdown is a lesson for Europe

Notebook | My latest for UnHerd

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Johan Wennström
Jun 17, 2026
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Stockholm

Since 2024, I am a regular contributor to UnHerd—the best name of any media organisation—writing about NATO and Scandinavia. Today’s piece examines Sweden’s new legislation “giving the government tools to act against migrants who fall short of serious criminality but who are persistently disorderly…”

… thereby fraying the social fabric and creating the sense of unhomeliness that many Europeans today associate with mass immigration. It hits directly at people who go underground to circumvent immigration rules, wrongfully claim sickness benefits, rack up debts, and otherwise show contempt for what Sweden’s Minister for Migration, Johan Forssell, calls “the effort to do the right thing”.

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