Our Swedish correspondent Alfred Fredriksson sends his report with the latest on the immigration debate in Sweden. Actually, it’s hardly a debate at all, not by the standards of the rest of the world. Only in Sweden could these timid whispers about immigration be characterized as a “debate”.

Here’s Mr. Fredriksson’s report:

The debate in Sweden grows more bizarre with every passing day.

Recently the Christian Democrat leader Göran Hägglund wrote an article with some proposals to reduce costs for mass immigration. He said that we must uphold the current level of immigration, but that we should slightly reduce welfare for asylum seekers, use temporary resident permits instead of permanent ones, and send people home if the situation in their country stabilizes. He was of course accused of racism by large parts of the establishment.

Anders Borg, the finance minister in the previous government under Fredrik Reinfeldt made this comment, translated from Expressen, one of Sweden’s leading tabloids: