Switzerland: Mayor resigns over threats after praising immigration

Switzerland: Mayor resigns over threats after praising immigration Via the Local: The mayor of a small town in northern Switzerland has left office after positive comments he made about immigrants were met with insults and threats directed at his family. Josef Bütler, the mayor of Spreitenbach, made the decision after he discovered that defending the integration of immigrants in Switzerland can turn into a nightmare. More than half of the town's 11,000 inhabitants are of foreign origin. On August 24th, Bütler participated on the TV show Schweiz Aktuell. Asked about the high proportion of foreigners in Spreitenbach, the Christian Democract praised the coexistence of Swiss and foreigners and said that for him immigration represented a "challenging enrichment." (source)