This morning I posted five of the ten ways that Denmark has managed to discourage immigration and to satisfy the demands of a population opposed to more arrivals. Here are the remaining five, once again from an enlightening article Remix published last February: “10 ways Denmark’s left-wing government reduced asylum applications by 82% and dramatically cut immigration,” by John Cody, Remix News, February 1, 2023:
Explaining immigration’s costs from a left-wing perspective
The government uses novel arguments missing from the rhetoric of most politicians and activists on the conservative right. For example, the left-wing government points to the environmental costs of continuous population expansion due to immigration as well as the extreme burden on Denmark’s generous social welfare model….
Pressure rejected asylum seekers to leave the country
For those migrants seeking social benefits in northern European countries, they have a tougher time of it in Denmark, especially if their asylum application is rejected. For asylum seekers with rejected claims, the Danish government halts benefits, allowances, and even sends them to prison, all in an effort to push them out of the country….
Advertise abroad
The Danish government has also advertised abroad, pointing out that the immigration process in Denmark is far less favorable than in other countries. These ads detail how new rules would see a 50 percent reduction in social benefits to new refugees and a one-year delay before they can apply for family reunification.
Although these ads may have little impact on foreigners’ desire to enter Europe, they most certainly discourage migrants from traveling to Denmark. They send a clear message that Denmark is unfriendly to the idea of mass immigration…
Legal carveouts and third-country processing
As a member of the EU, the Schengen Area, and the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), Denmark has managed to pursue its unique policy by negotiating a series of derogations (opt-outs) from the European treaties.
This allows the Danes to legally treat third-country nationals according to their own rules, and has led to Denmark’s groundbreaking program to send migrants to African countries while their asylum claims are being processed, a policy the EU has fiercely opposed but which is supported by the Danish public….
These are all policies that can and should be emulated across Europe. European governments could also make one-time payments to Muslims willing to move back to their countries of origin, on the understanding that they will not try to return to Europe. Such payments would be far cheaper than maintaining these people in Europe. Their true cost of such migrants to the state is enormous: it includes not only all those benefits so many of these migrants now receive for free (housing, education, medical care, family allowances), but also the losses stemming from the property they vandalize (storefronts smashed, cars torched) or steal (street robberies, house burglaries), or the human cost to Europeans of those “businesses” favored by young Muslim men — drug-dealing and prostitution. And on top of all that, there is the cost to the state of dealing with so many Muslim criminals — in France alone, Muslims constitute 80% of those now in prison. These costs include hiring more gendarmes, more detectives, more prosecutors, more court-provided lawyers, more judges, more prison guards, and even more prisons. Billions are now being spent on, or because of, these migrants; bribing them to leave Europe would be a bargain.
Success breeds success
The drastic policies implemented by Denmark have had two notable effects. First, the collapse of migrant flows. Immigration fell by 28 percent between 2014, the year before the refugee crisis, and 2019, the year before the Covid-19 health crisis. The total number of asylum applications fell by 82 percent, from 14,792 to 2,716, for a country of 5.8 million people. If this ratio were applied to France, the country would have only 31,000 asylum applications per year, compared to 132,000 in 2019. Just in 2022, France set a record in terms of immigration.
Denmark has one of the highest shares of ethnic Europeans in the country, and the share of non-European births in the country is at approximately 11 percent. In France, for example, it is estimated that 35 percent of all births are non-European, while in Germany it is 24 percent…
Many will remember Denmark’s record during World War II when, while under German occupation, the Danes managed to spirit almost all Danish Jews out of the country to unoccupied Sweden, where they would be safe. King Christian X, who helped finance the effort to rescue Danish Jews, rode through the streets on his horse Jubilee, without a guard, and his ride was understood by his people as a symbol of resistance to the Nazis.
Now Denmark is again showing the rest of Europe how to behave. In this post and in the one posted this morning, I’ve listed a total of “10 ways that Denmark has put a lid on immigration and satisfied the demands of a population opposed to more arrivals.” That is how Denmark does it. And that is how every other country in Europe can do it, too.
Mary Jo Pierce says
What a novel and perfect solution to an invasion problem,. Kudos to the Danes. Here’s to the USA ?? following in their path….but the insane woke will never see the truth in this, they never do. Perhaps we should apply this same system to them? To any other country but our own? Love that idea ?
BTeboe says
If Europe doesn’t do something they will all be Sharia compliant countries as Islam pushes for civilization Jihad. And with all the bennies provided they will definitely outbreed the natives.
John Pepple says
Yes. And even if Denmark were to avoid such a fate, how long would they hold out if their neighbors were all living under sharia?
Fudgy Bear says
Ever heard of Asterix and Obelix?
Fitna says
Denmark is a model country for the rest to follow. All it really takes is for the non-Muslims to remember they have all the power, they hold all the cards…they can decide the fate of their countries, not the EU, UN or the invaders who illegally entered their country.
For the moment, most European nations seem to be hypnotized by Muslims and Leftist ideology and assume they have no choice but to accept the manure that has been foisted on them and take even more suffering and abuse.
They can tighten restrictions to get in, or they can take off the gloves and throw the invaders out. They can make brutal laws against Islam to make life extremely uncomfortable for Muslims so they’ll be forced to leave. They can even declare war or use the Chinese ‘re-education camps’ option also.
The main thing is that they decide to get pro-active, ‘do something’ and deal with this threat, rather than allow the thugs in the street to dictate what will happen to their country.
I hope we have a similar pushback to migrant invaders here in Canada/US and then we can go on with our lives without worry about an Islamic takeover…however next we need to work to make sure that no Muslim country is ever allowed to have nuclear weapons, which means to take away Pakistan’s nukes and prevent Iran, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and other nations from getting them.
There is also the concern that China and Russia could hand off nukes to Muslim countries to use against us…that’s something that should be dealt with also.
OP8 says
In a perfect world Turkey would have never have become a NATO member and instead the west should have welcomed Russia to join. Russia is part of the west way, unlike Türkiyei. What a sad state of affairs, the west mingling with Turkey and China whilst demonizing Russia. The Berlin wall fell down but communism migrated, the ideas permeated westward and Islam and all its Fascist allies benefited from it (Red-Green-Black alliance) sometimes I wonder if the whole Fall of the USSR was a ruse that’s bearing it fruits now, or if I’m just looking thru rose-tinted lenses yearning for the times where we had an Enemy that at least seemed more rational and refined compared to these goat-loving savages. Most importantly communism was widely denounced and criticized in the west ,except in academic circles where it was not only tolerated but in-vogue and revered by “Les Intellectuels”. Now we’re paying the price of an asinine indoctrination of self-hatred whose reverberation dwells on and on loud and clear to this day.
John Pepple says
The problem for us non-Muslims is that we are divided into two groups, elites and non-elites, with the former having almost all of the power and the latter having none. Unfortunately for us non-elites, our elites do not see anything wrong with all the immigration, for the media they rely on refuses to talk about such things. The elites live in a bubble, and it is impossible to get through to them. Here in America, it has been amusing watching some elites in Michigan who are aghast that a majority-Muslim municipality refused to fly the pride flag. We told these people again and again and again that Muslims do not share our values, and they just refused to listen.
Piercing the elites’ bubble is the biggest political problem of our era.
Wellington says
Of course none of this would be necessary by Denmark if Islam was just another religion.
But it isn’t. And this is why Denmark has done what it has done and which needs to be emulated by all Western nations because Islam is a destroyer of all things non-Islamic and is presently pointing a metaphorical dagger at the heart of Western Civilization—something that fools like Biden, Trudeau, Macron and Pope Francis fail to see or don’t want to see.
Joe1 says
You’re right. Every other religion has happiness (beatitude) as the goal, but Islam has Islamic theocracy as the goal. In most cases they are moving from an Islamic theocracy to a country that doesn’t have it. Islamic theocracy is designed to give the religious elite all the power and money, but I suppose the average Muslim doesn’t care or know.
Johnnyboy says
Ha-Ha – Hugh Fitzgerald has also “taken the bait”…..
Yes – it is correct Denmark may have has some success with some of these “secrets”….BUT…..
It’s all rubbish – all the “secrets” are largely hot air successfully narrated over decades by various liberal-socialist governments to lull the ethnic population into accepting the ridiculous levels of welfare migrants from muzlem countries and the associated catastrophic social upheavals- ghetto’s…gangs…rapes…etc..etc…
The level of the resulting catastrophe in Denmark is probably about 5-10 years behind for example Sweden – that about the only positive result of these “secrets”.
In my case being an old man – I’ve resigned to the inevitable muzlem take-over of basically the whole western world – but I’m really flapper-gasted as to why this has been allowed to happen over the last 30-40 years.
Aum says
Work in progress.
dunk says
Sounds “rosy” did somebody ask the Danes
Emmanuel says
In Denmark history is repeating itself in a positive manner!