“But that has nothing to do with ethnicity. Who's by the way Swedish and who's an immigrant?”

— Mona Sahlin

Mona Sahlin answers a question about increased crime and immigration in the Ungt val (eng. Young Election/Choice) section of the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet, March 15, 2002.

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