“Swedish MP Louise Meijer reneges on open borders stance:
“When a large wave of refugees came to Sweden in 2015, I took a stand for ‘openness and refugees welcome.’ But I have changed my mind. Now, I represent an even stricter immigration policy than the one I opposed at the time.””
Swedish MP Louise Meijer reneges on open borders stance:
“When a large wave of refugees came to Sweden in 2015, I took a stand for ‘openness and refugees welcome.’ But I have changed my mind. Now, I represent an even stricter immigration policy than the one I opposed at the… pic.twitter.com/ekSo1XnGMW
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Louise Meijer, an MP for Sweden’s centrist Moderate party, apologised to voters for her previous position on open borders. She regrets “making mistakes” by “pleading for openness and refugees [being] welcome”, she says.
Meijer says she “changed her mind” over her views, in an opinion piece for Expressen this week.
“Now, instead, I am advocating an even stricter migration policy than the one I opposed at the time,” she says.
Political sentiments around migration have shifted swiftly in Sweden, with now even leaders of the Social Democrats saying they favour more strict migration policies.
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.