Sometimes I look at the US and think how crazy conservative some of this stuff is. But then, this is just Swedish reality these days.
requiring public schools to collect data on immigration status when students enroll
The current Swedish government, consisting of liberals, conservatives, and the far right, want this to be reality. Well, even worse stuff really. They want it to be illegal for an employee in schools, libraries, and hospitals not to report a child and their family if they suspect they may have some problem with immigration. It is so disgusting.
I’m not too surprised by this; the politics of immigration are different in the US, where almost the entire population is immigrants and the descendants of immigrants, and Europe, which didn’t have any real history of immigration until quite recently.
Sometimes I look at the US and think how crazy conservative some of this stuff is. But then, this is just Swedish reality these days.
The current Swedish government, consisting of liberals, conservatives, and the far right, want this to be reality. Well, even worse stuff really. They want it to be illegal for an employee in schools, libraries, and hospitals not to report a child and their family if they suspect they may have some problem with immigration. It is so disgusting.
I’m not too surprised by this; the politics of immigration are different in the US, where almost the entire population is immigrants and the descendants of immigrants, and Europe, which didn’t have any real history of immigration until quite recently.
There are some very real benefits to allowing significant levels of immigration: