Refugee influx weighs on Swedish towns

Sweden was struggling to cope with the arrival in 2015 of one asylum-seeker for every 60 Swedes. Unease and support for the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats was growing. Richard Orange reported from Revingeby, Sweden for DW.

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