Swedes Attempt to Grapple with Immigration

New housing and work demands for immigrants

The government has proposed a http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3031 requiring immigrants to have a job and housing before sending for relatives.

According to the Prime Minister, the proposal is a way to strengthen the government’s job creation policy. He stressed that a http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=774 by reducing the number of people stuck in crowded living quarters and dependent on government welfare payments.

“It is an important and meaningful approach to strengthen job creation,” said Reinfeldt.

Reinfeldt went on to indicate clearly that he was against forces—such as the far-right Sweden Democrats—that focus only on the unpleasant side of a multicultural Sweden.“We must bring all our strength together against those [forces, not by hiding behind the problems, but rather by ensuring that things work better,” said Reinfeldt.

Later in the day, Billström will present the directive once again during a special press conference to be held in Landskrona, one of the http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2371’ strongholds in the south of Sweden.

Meanwhile, the directive has already received criticism from the http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2497 Party.

“This is one of the most serious restrictions on immigrants’ human rights that has occurred in many years,” wrote Left Party spokesman Kalle Larsson in a statement.

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2008-02-12