Sweden’s government on Tuesday said it would put forward a bill introducing a requirement for migrants to adhere to an “honest living” or face deportation.
“If, for example, you ignore paying your debts, if you don’t comply with decisions from Swedish authorities, if you cheat the benefits system, if you cheat your way to a Swedish residence permit… then you do not have the right to be here,” Forssell said.
Other examples the government cited as examples included working without paying taxes or not paying fines.
“Just don’t be poor.”
“Statements – that is, things a person says or expresses – should not in themselves be regarded as evidence of lack of honest living, but they may be an indication of, for example, links to violent extremism, which can then be a sign of deficient character,” Ludvig Aspling, migration policy spokesman for the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats which is propping up the government, told reporters.
“Just don’t be poor.”
Absolutely dystopian.
Please stop equating being poor with being fraudulent and criminal. The list of fraudulent behavior has nothing to do with being poor.
And fighting violent extremism is in no way dystopian.
Poor people have a smaller tax burden for their socialized healthcare. “Don’t pay taxes” isn’t a “poor” thing.