Lönn: The Elderly Care's Immigrant Boogeymen Shatter the Myth That Work Solves Integration

COLUMN • Samnytt has been able to report on dozens of cases where immigrants have committed ruthless crimes against Swedish pensioners in their own homes. These crimes have been made possible because the perpetrators were employed in home care services and were allowed to get to know the victims through their jobs. What emerges highlights that values, ethics, and morals do not simply disappear because immigrants get jobs in Sweden. In several cases, it has rather been the job that gave them the opportunity to steal from, assault, and rape Swedish pensioners.

For decades, the Swedish people have been fed the same tired message: As long as immigrants get jobs, the problems will solve themselves. Everything was about learning the Swedish language and contributing to the common tax pot. But those of us who saw the problems coming always knew that jobs would not resolve the conflict of values.

What do these same politicians say when work does not become the solution — but rather a tool for crime?

In recent years, Samnytt has repeatedly reported on how elderly Swedes have been subjected to violent crimes by people who gained access to their homes through work in the home care sector. The perpetrators have gotten to know their victims through their jobs, mapped out their routines, and exploited the trust their profession gave them to commit ruthless crimes.

The perpetrators who terrify Swedish pensioners. Photo: Screenshot Youtube, Swedish Police and Samnytt graphics.

We can read about a 96-year-old woman who was robbed, a 108-year-old woman who had her savings stolen, a 99-year-old woman who was tormented, humiliated, and filmed. And most recently, an 82-year-old woman who was raped by a man who was hired despite a recent gang conviction.

Headlines that ought to bring the entire integration debate to a halt.

Work has given the perpetrators the opportunity to commit ruthless crimes

These are not stories of people who are far from Swedish society — quite the opposite. They have what politicians have long claimed would be the solution to integration: a job.

The real problems with integration have never been about employment, nor about language skills. It has instead been about ethics, morals, and fundamental values. About respect for fellow human beings, the elderly, and for Sweden as a country. A respect that is clearly missing.

Fredrik Reinfeldt (M) and Stefan Löfven (S) bear responsibility for integration policy. Photo: Facebook screenshot and Frankie Fouganthin CC BY-SA 4.0

Our Swedish elderly care — like so much else — has long been based on trust. We entrust unknown people to enter our elders’ homes, their safe zone. When that trust is abused, it is not only a crime against the individual — but an attack on our entire society.

Still, politicians continue to treat each new case as an isolated incident — and refuse to see the common factor.

Several immigrant ‘horrors’ are allowed to stay in Sweden

In several of the cases Samnytt has highlighted, people who are not Swedish citizens have avoided deportation despite committing horrific crimes against our elderly. In some cases, the perpetrators have been deported — but are welcomed back after five years.

But the pensioners have to live with trauma and fear for the rest of their lives. They may never feel safe in their own homes again.

Why should these creeps stay in Sweden? Why are they welcomed back after five years? Why are they in Sweden at all?

Now SD and the government are to force prosecutors to demand the deportation of criminal immigrants — but that still does not solve the entire problem. We have seen in several cases that prosecutors have demanded deportation — only for the court to reject the request.

The man who raped the 82-year-old will not be deported.

In the latest case, with the gang-affiliated Eritrean who raped an 82-year-old woman, the prosecutor demanded permanent deportation, something the court did not find reasonable. They motivated this by saying the man had “been in Sweden for a long time,” since he was young, and had attended Swedish school.

Particularly astonishing was the justification that he had “a job” in recent years. The job — which in this case was the entire reason he could rape the elderly woman — was thus used as a justification for why he can stay in the country. Insane.

What message does this send to the Swedish public?

The fact that Swedish pensioners can be robbed, assaulted or raped in their own homes, without society even ensuring that the perpetrators leave the country. When courts reason that work, ties, and length of stay should outweigh the severity of the crime. Then it’s no wonder that confidence is completely shattered.

Of course, anyone coming to Sweden should learn the language and get a job. But none of that guarantees that the person in any way shares our values or shows respect for the Swedish people.

Swedish politicians must dare to discuss the fact that there are people in Sweden who do not want to integrate, cannot be integrated, and above all, should not be integrated. They should go home. Home to their native countries and never come back again.

There should never be an opportunity for them to commit ruthless crimes against Swedes.

Our elderly deserve better than to be used as guinea pigs in the sick integration project that politicians have made elderly care into. People who abuse the trust we give them to commit serious crimes against society’s most vulnerable must be met with the harshest consequences the law allows.

The very least our pensioners should be able to demand is to feel safe in their own homes.