"Illegal overstayer who requires 24/7 care costing thousands of £ each week at taxpayer expense to be deported".

Equivalent Daily Mail headline if this was about the same thing happening here.

That aside, things like this are the harsh reality of brexit. Why would we expect Sweden to keep looking after him if we wouldn't do the same?

Swede here, alot of our empathic and socialist values have gone downhill for many years but especially the last few years have seen a big rise to the right wing extremist party. I think most people here will find this cruel. "This is not the people we wanted to throw out! It was only The muslims, arabs, jews, colored people, unemployed..." etc etc etc.

Some of the new laws that has been passed with the right wing partiets have been incredibly stupid and enabled shit like this. My favorite is that its now illegal to insult law enforcement. There's this old rhyme we taught kids "polis polis potatisgris" ("police police potato-pig") which with current jurisdiction would be illegal.

So yeah, Sweden is doing great and is absolutely not turning in to yet another unempathic capitalistic americanized shithole. People keep buying the lies and turn against the less fortunate of society instead of actually seeing the problem.

These are countries that want to put people from war torn and poor countries in containers and ship them back. There's such a disgusting lack of empathy in the world at the moment, no wonder fascism is back.

Article doesn't really mention since when he had been in full time care

An application for a residence permit was made in December 2021 but was rejected last November by the Swedish migration agency on the grounds “he had not submitted documents demonstrating that he met the requirements for the right of residence” and would have to leave the country.

So it took Migrationsverket 4 years to figure that out? They are a shoddy bunch so I would not put it far from them to never explain what exactly they need.

Depending on since when this guy has been in full time care, he probably did fullfill all requirements as before last year it mostly was about living in Sweden for 5+ years and earning a decent enough salary to support yourself.

Bit of a weird case but knowing how terrible Migrationsverket just is I would not throw this out as a case of the dude just "applying too late".

Guilt free since he'll never remember

Horrible, but this is Brexit and voting has consequences. Now go enjoy your £15 chippy tea and a nice swim at the sewage beach.

Does Sweden have some entity to overrule that? The guy isn't even there mentally. It sounds needlessly cruel and shameful.

Man, this has got to be absolutely awful for this family