In a recent report, we noted that Fox heavily favors anti-immigrant voices in its immigration segments. Fox News' October 28 report on Sweden's immigration policies was no different. Though Sweden's foreign-born population numbers just 17 percent, Fox trumpeted the claims of “critics” of the country's immigration policies who claim that the country is turning “into a smaller Saudi Arabia.” Fox also gave a platform to a member of Sweden's most extremist political party.

Twice, it aired the report about how the city of Malmo is now one third immigrant. And twice, it featured Kent Ekeroth from the far-right Sweden Democrat party. In the first clip, he stated: “It doesn't solve anything by importing immigrants to this country. And besides, even if it did, which it [doesn't], what we're doing is exchanging one population for another. I mean, we're basically exchanging the country.”

Ekeroth later stated:

EKEROTH: What kind of immigrants do we take in? It's people from Somalia who's done nothing more than herd sheep the whole -- all their life. And we expect them to be a benefit to our society? It's ridiculous.

Ekeroth has reportedly "written that Europe is on the brink of collapse due to 'completely irresponsible immigration policies, naivety and left-wing influences combined with a fascination for Islamism and contempt for our own cultural inheritance.' " He has also reportedly “expressed concern that Sweden will soon not exist 'except as a term for a geographical area.' "

According to The Local, an English-language news website in Sweden, Ekeroth was fired as an intern in 2007 from the Swedish Embassy in Israel because of racist writings:

Former Ambassador to Israel Robert Rydberg informed Lambertz that Ekeroth was asked to leave after writing in “a xenophobic and anti-Muslim manner” on his blog. This could “damage the embassy's credibility,” said Rydberg.

But the main problem, according to Rydberg, was that Ekeroth wrote his blog entries during work hours.

In one instance he compared immigration with a HIV epidemic, said the embassy.

But Fox News identified Ekeroth simply as a “critic” of Sweden's immigration policies and made no mention of his far-right views, his party's extremist ideology, or its neo-Nazi background. One party member recently argued that “Muslims shouldn't be allowed to practice their faith” in Sweden. Another party member was charged with assault after he allegedly hit a black bus driver and called him a racial slur.

According to the New York Times, a campaign party ad depicted “women in burqas with strollers stampeding past an elderly Swedish woman to claim dwindling public funds. It was so inflammatory that Sweden's TV4 banned it until it was re-edited.”

Following the attacks on Norway by Anders Behring Breivik, who reportedly “cited SD among his influences” in his manifesto, Ekeroth blamed the attacks on Islamic terrorism. Reported The Local:

Sweden Democrat MP Kent Ekeroth also courted controversy on the evening of the attacks when used his twitter to ask: “Anyone care to guess who is behind the bombs in Norway?.

He was warned by party secretary Björn Söder not to speculate before the cause of the attacks was known, but proceeded to write: ”No I am not going to call you Islamophobes".

This is not a mainstream political party in Sweden and Ekeroth, himself, is not mainstream. In fact, his political party's message of hate is reportedly viewed with “horror” by most Swedes. Though the party won a spate of seats in the last election, other political parties shun it. They consider it “taboo” to deal with the Sweden Democrats, said a Swedish political scientist. “No party can afford ... to be accused of dealing with the SD,” he added.

But Fox News, which is home to more than a few anti-immigrant voices, saw nothing wrong in broadcasting and mainstreaming the party's extremist views for a larger American audience. Indeed, Ekeroth's voice just joins a growing chorus of anti-immigrant voices who are welcomed on Fox.