Trump is right: Sweden’s refugee policy has led to problems it never imagined

(Fraser Nelson writes from Stockholm) During a rally in Florida yesterday, Donald Trump spoke about immigration. “You look at what’s happening in Germany, you look at what’s happening last night in Sweden. Sweden! Who would believe this. Sweden! They took in large numbers. They’re having problems like they never thought possible.” He then mentioned Brussels and Nice, both scenes of terrorist attack last year. But nothing had happened the previous night in Sweden: Trump later said he was referring to a Fox News feature on Swedish migration that he was watching the previous evening (clip above). So he misspoke, as he does. A lot. But the tragic fact is that, overall, he has a point. 

Sweden has grown used to refugee-related crime stories, from attacks on asylum centres to gang-related killings. I met a journalist in Stockholm a few days ago who told me that such stories – shootings in Malmö, even suicides of unaccompanied child refugees swallowed up by the burgeoning immigrant underclass – don’t make the news in a way they should because such stories have become commonplace.