Stockholm: Sweden, which has been welcoming refugees for many decades, has taken up a special campaign to halt the influx of refugees. The name of this campaign is ‘Don’t Come Here Campaign’, and the government has taken the initiative for it. As part of the campaign, Sweden’s Minister of Migration, Maria Malmer Stenergard, has started giving interviews in various European media, and articles have also been published. More than 700,000 refugees have infiltrated Sweden in the last 14 years, and it recently emerged that the percentage of foreign-born citizens in the country’s population was increasing.
In the last decade, then-German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced an ‘Open Door Policy’ for refugees from the Gulf and African countries. After that, a large number of refugees infiltrated the European countries. With a population of 10 million, Sweden had begun to flood with the influx of 80,000 to 90,000 refugees a year. The Swedish public, who initially welcomed it, later opposed the influx. In some Swedish cities, criminal gangs had come to rise from the refugee camps. These gangs caused harassment to the locals. 
Due to this, there had been an increase in crime and violent incidents, and Sweden began imposing phased restrictions on refugees. However, even after that, the increasing number of refugees and the impact of crime began to appear among the Swedish people. The right-wing political parties in Sweden took up this issue and started the agitation, which received a good response from the Swedish public.
In the last year’s elections, the right-wing alliance, formed at the initiative of the aggressive right-wing party ‘Sweden Democrats’, won 176 seats. It was said that the infiltration of refugees and the subsequent increase in crime in the country was the decisive factor behind this coup in Sweden.
Besides, it had come to the fore that refugee gangs have virtually rampaged in Sweden’s major cities, with violent incidents and other crimes rising by more than 30%. The Sweden Democrats had consistently taken an aggressive stance and strongly criticised the government’s policies regarding refugee issues. Moreover, analysts claim that its results were reflected in the election results.
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