Swedish MP Louise Meijer previously supported the mass migration into Sweden in 2015, but now admits it “is fundamentally changing the country” and calls to pull up the drawbridge
A Swedish lawmaker who previously advocated in favor of mass arrivals of asylum seekers during the migrant crisis of 2015 has admitted the influx of immigration has fundamentally changed the country and now wants to pull up the drawbridge.
Louise Meijer of the now-governing Moderate Party penned her thoughts on the Swedish government’s need to crack down on migration and signaled a U-turn from her previous desire to welcome an unprecedented number of new arrivals into the country.
Writing in the Expressen, Meijer acknowledged that during the migrant crisis in 2015 she “took a stand for openness ‘Refugees Welcome,’” opposing her party’s call at the time for stricter rules to curb immigration.
“But I have changed my mind on the matter,” she noted, adding she now supports “an even stricter migration policy than the one I opposed at the time.”