“Sweden is a humanitarian superpower.”
Carl Bildt, Foreign Minister, Sweden

Administrators and decision makers at the Swedish Migration Board (Migrationsverket) have reported about their work and what they have seen, heard and experienced handling asylum cases for almost seven years. Their stories have been published on my blog — hundreds and hundreds of them — and they have also been collected into two books, available as ”paperbooks” as well as e-books.

These stories are often both startling and shocking. But hardly anybody in Sweden wants — or dares — to address the matters that the officials of Migrationsverket report about, out of fear of risking to be called “racist” or “xenophobic” or “islamophobic”. Members of Parliament as well as the Government in Sweden rather keep quiet and act like ostriches, burying their heads in the sand, pretending that they don’t hear what the highly qualified staff of the government authority, the Migration Board, are reporting, than take the risk of being labelled any of the three things mentioned above. Most Swedish journalists also pretend that all is fine and that Sweden, with a population of 9,5 million and a work force of maybe 3,5-4 million that pay taxes, can absorb tens and tens of thousands non European citizens (80,000 or more estimated to arrive this year), many with fake identities and fake asylum stories, fake ages (they say they are minors when they are far older than 18) etc that are coming to the country every year.

Here are just a few, short excerpts from authentic testimonies by lawyers and other highly educated staff of the Migration Board:

“It is difficult to understand why it is considered controversial to report asylum frauds to the Police.”

“We spend less and less time on each case. Our management likes to think that we are working smarter, but the fact is that we know that asylum seekers will stay in our country regardless of what decision they get. “

“Most refugees (ie with refugee reasons) that I have met and whose applications I have handled, actually have passports with Swedish visas. They also have other genuine documents to confirm their stories.”

“An asylum investigation should be about the applicant and his or her reasons for asking for asylum. It should not be a power struggle between the public counsel and us, the asylum investigators.”

“We need to start reporting asylum fraud to the Police and not grant the cheaters residence permits and let them cheat and lie their way into the country.”

“What has happened is that a black market industry has been built around people who reside illegally in Sweden.”

“In Sweden we have no clue about who all the people are, whom we have granted residence permits. We do not know what their true reasons are for being here. Since we do not know their real names or their nationality since we have no proof of their identity, we have no way of knowing if they are refugees, terrorists or criminals.”

Please note: All asylum seekers in Sweden are certainly not false; all asylum seekers are not telling false stories and showing false papers! But too many are. For a small country to accept the kind of instability in the society that the more or less collapsed asylum system is creating and Sweden already experiences — and will see more of in the future — is irresponsible, wrong and dangerous.

The books, containing almost 6,5 years of stories told by officials at Migrationsverket, can be bought here (only in Swedish). And m—-ost of the texts in the books can be read here (by using Google Translate or a similar tool).