Immigration threatens the Swedish welfare state.

Basically, there are ghettos in Sweden. Statstically, if you grow up in these areas you are less likely to graduate high school, less likely to leave 9th grade with the grades required to study in high school. Cars are set on fire, rocks thrown at police and many young people adopt the American ghetto culture as they are unable to identify with the Swedish one (this is not a racial issue, it goes for ethnic Swedes and second genners). The main issue I see is the identity crisis. I went through this period myself and so many of my friends did.

The song Enfant de la patrie by Rost and Scred connexion brings this up perfectly. "Children of the fatherland, of your country we are part, parked in ghettos, we're the forgotten ones" "Born on French soil, why do you talk to me about integration?" "How do you want us to see ourselves as children of the fatherland?" "Originally from Africa, born in France, here they see me as those from there, there they see me as those from here"

The point is that an Algerian teenager born in Sweden will not be considered Algerian in Algeria but will also not be considered Swedish in Sweden. This has an extreme effect on the fragile minds of teens, particularly if they're from a rough neighborhood. I know so many people born in Sweden who don't speak Swedish properly, immigrants who have lived here since they were just a few years old also. The racists think there is something inherently wrong with them, or the culture of their parents but they are not part of it. They're in a limbo and politicians have no concrete plans to do anything about this. In truth they don't even speak of it. It is de facto segregation. I am pro-immigration but with today's levels of migration, and the way in which it is being handled, we are not integrating people. Of course, if you migrate to Sweden as a young teen and end up in a rough neighborhood, and you start acting all gangsta, you've integrated perfectly into that particular sub-culture.

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