Legal immigration is of course fine and necessary, as long as the state and socials systems can assimilate it... (Japan is a good example). But articles like this show concerning data points in western countries with uncontrolled migratory policies.
Looking at [1], murder rate in Slovakia is comparable, and Hungary only slightly lower. Sweden isn't even near the top murder rate in the EU, and a number of other countries which accepted a large number of refugees have lower murder rates than Sweden.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention...
Here is Finland: https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/FIN/finland/murder-hom...
And here is Norway: https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/NOR/norway/murder-homi...
They do not see this rise.
Finland also has a markedly higher murder rate to start with (for whatever reason), and it absolutely shows a distinct rise in the last few years – much more so than Sweden in fact.
Norway is indeed more stable. However, Norway also accepted significant number of migration. Although it's hard to tell how much exactly because of different definitions, it seems roughly half as much as Sweden (adjusted for population), which is less but not nothing.
And in a quick check Finland has seen even less migration than Norway.
So you will need to explain why Norway sees no rise in spite of migration, and Finland sees a rise in spite of less migration.
And sure, I'm willing to accept that migration is a factor in Sweden. Although I can't tell you how exactly since I'm not familiar enough with the nuances in Sweden. But this "argumentum ad charts" you're making that migration somehow automatically leads to crime is complete bollocks.
Just minutes ago in another comment you yourself posted a link which clearly and markedly shows that Finland has seen a marked and steep rise in the last few years: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38339299
And my main point was that "gun violence" showing near zero for some countries shouldn't absolutely not be taken as "near zero crime" or "near zero homicide".
[1]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/533917/sweden-number-of-...
But reliable figures are hard to come by, partly because if scientists, even accidentally, find that, e.g., most rapes are committed by immigrants, they get prosecuted (eventually the charges were dropped, because they couldn't prove "bad intentions", negligence, or carelessness) [1,2,3,4].
The other reason is that, though Sweden used to collect data about criminal's ethnic background, they stopped I think in 2005 [5]. Though it seems they've resumed - in searching for sources for this post, I found https://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/2021/11/sweden-finally-publishe...
[0] https://www.thefp.com/p/two-bombings-in-one-night-thats-norm...
[1] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/20961790.2020.1...
[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45269764
[3] https://www.opindia.com/2021/11/sweden-lund-university-resea...
[4] https://lakartidningen.se/aktuellt/nyheter/2023/06/aklagare-...
[5] https://www.thelocal.se/20180508/why-sweden-doesnt-keep-stat...
Huh? What's wrong with living in Slovakia?
You're making it sound like Slovakia is Botswana, Saudi Arabia or something when it's one of the safest and developed countries in the world, unless you opinion of Slovakia comes from the famous Bratislava scene from the movie Eurotrip.
Firstly, which developed countries (that don't have "cheat codes") haven't stagnated GDP-wise post 2008? AFAIK, most of them.
>a country that hasn’t climbed out of the middle income trap yet
Secondly, GDP growth as a number on it's own, is pretty useless, as it's not a 1:1 representation of quality of life increase for the average citizen. GPD can grow just from some billionaires moving trillions form one to another or from extracting wealth from your country and its citizens, that doesn't necessarily mean the average citizen gets a piece of that pie or gets to see better quality public services. It just feeds the "line goes up" crowd who see a country as a publicly listed corporation.
Thirdly, as a country, once you reach a certain level of development by plucking the lowest hanging fruits that have been tried and tested and know to work by former industrial powers, growth becomes much harder and more capital intensive, only accessible to countries that already have crazy money to spend in R&D and innovation in the newly developing high growth markets, like the US, UK, China, Netherlands, Switzerland, Scandinavia, etc. Everyone else is stuck waiting and playing catch-up for eternity, but that doesn't mean they live poor lives.
The GDP per capita of Zimbabwe grew 3x post-2008 while Slovakia has relatively stagnated, yet I know for sure in which one I'd prefer to be born in.
>calling it one of the most developed countries is stretching the facts beyond breaking
It's one of the most developed countries in the world when you look at how bad the whole world is doing right now, not just the US, Germany, Singapore or Australia, which have their own challenges when you zoom in on them and not just glance at the "line goes up" GPD numbers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention...
...when you sort by "Rate", Germany is at spot 161, Hungary at 164, and Sweden at 144 (and for comparison's sake and because it's kinda interesting/surprising: Russia and the US are also identical at spot 52 and 53). So even when taking knife killings into account the argument doesn't make sense, Germany is much closer (actually pretty much identical) to "poster child" Hungary than Sweden.
[0]https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/stabbing-...
One important difference between Germany and Sweden: youth unemployment is much much lower in Germany.
Similar developments as in Sweden can be seen in the Netherlands, due to the drug trade.
Background to the situation in Sweden: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/27/sweden-seeks-t...
But generally the homicide rate in Sweden is very low (~ 1/6 of the US), Germany a bit lower, still.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention...
How do you allow something legally that is illegal? If you allow it, it is not illegal. If you don't, you haven't allowed it.
That's supposedly what happened in Germany in Foreign minister Annalena Baerbocks office.
Basically the embassy reported that it has all reason to believe that the passport is faked. Still, Annalena Baerbocks ministry pressured them on providing the legal documents that would allow said person to seek refugee status in Germany.
Low-quality link in german language: https://www.cicero.de/aussenpolitik/visa-affare-im-auswartig...
[1] https://greekreporter.com/2023/10/03/greek-man-gang-war-swed...