Posted on 12/15/2015 10:13:28 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Denmark passed a law on Sunday to confiscate jewelry from refugees in order to 'make ends meet', Swedish national public TV broadcaster STV reported.
Justice and Immigration Minister Sören Pind had last week defended the move during a live news program on a state-run TV channel saying, "This way the revenue that is obtained can be used to meet the costs of the refugees."
However, Pind underlined that wedding or engagement rings, watches and cell phones would not be confiscated, but all items with a value over 300 euros would be seized by the government.
While the law is already drawing public criticism from Denmark and Sweden, police are trying to determine how it will be enforced.
Denmark has been getting a bad reputation in Europe, especially since the Nordic country launched anti-refugee ads in September and shut off rail way links to the country. Its anti-refugee stance has been in full spate since Denmark's ruling Liberal Party won power in June on an anti-immigration platform.
According to the Danish Immigration Service (DIS), numbers indicate a skyrocketing refugee population in Denmark. Nearly double the number of refugees sought asylum in the country in 2014 than 2013, going from 7,557 to 14,815. Of the 14,815 refugees who sought asylum last year, less than half were granted official refugee status, totaling 6,110. The two largest groups who sought asylum in 2015 were from Syria and Eritrea.
Officials said that the recent refugee surge has become an opportunity for some gangs in Denmark. The gangs are making large amounts of money through assisting the refugees during their journey to Europe. The Denmark police recently conducted raids to arrest people for human smuggling.
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Refugees have a lot of expensive jewelry?
And cellphones.
Jihadiphones?
Osamaphones.
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Their version of obamaphones -0bamajihadistphones!
With the relative little experience I have with Muslim/Arab women, they invest in gold and precious stones jewelry, it is portable and has value.
“Say that’s a nice jewel-encrusted vest”
“It’s...it’s just glass”
Muslim bling.
Just push them all into Germany. The hag Merkel invited them. She can support them.
While well-intentioned, this is a despicable policy and sounds too much like the Nazis.
Bwahahahahahahaaaaa!
Probably not true. I think this is a Muslim source? I’ve heard the name, but can’t remember context.
If they want to emigrate, then they can choose which countries to go to, and if they don’t like what Denmark is doing, keep going down the road.
An increasing number of asylum seekers from Afghanistan, Iraq and Kosovo are returning to their countries, saying that they had expected better care and a shorter asylum process in Austria.
Figures from the Interior Ministry show that between January and November this year over 1,100 Kosovans left Austria voluntarily. Kosovo is considered to be a safe country of origin and migrants have little chance of obtaining asylum in Austria.
Migrants from Iraq and Afghanistan have a good chance of being registered as asylum seekers but so far 530 people from Iraq have returned home, and 120 from Afghanistan. "This trend has become more noticeable since mid-September," Interior Ministry spokesman Karl-Heinz Grundböck said.
The Caritas charity confirmed that between September 1st and December 14th 257 Iraqis, 35 Afghans and 53 Iranians flew home - most of whom had been resident in Vienna. In 2014 only two Iraqis, nine Afghans and one Iranian chose to return to their own countries.
"Many are afraid of being deported and the humiliation of that," Caritas spokesman Martin Gantner said. He added that others are returning because they miss their families, and some had different expectations of what Austria and Europe would be like. "There are so many uncertainties for them here in Austria, many refugees are traumatized and need a sense of security," he said.
Three Iraqi men in their 20s who spoke to the Kurier newspaper say they plan to fly home on Wednesday after three months in Austria. They are all computer engineers and had hoped to build a better life here. "We wanted peace, freedom and a future," 23-year-old Muqdad said. He and his friends have been living in emergency refugee accommodation in Vienna's 3rd district.
"We've just been humiliated here," said Omer. "It was a mistake to come. People look at us here as if we were terrorists, and all we want is peace. Dogs are treated better than refugees in Austria - at least they have something good to eat, and are even given something to wear."
The Afghan and Iraqi embassies in Vienna have also confirmed that increasing numbers of their citizens are choosing to return to their countries and said that they are issuing travel documents to dozens of people every day. The flights are mainly financed by the Interior Ministry and the EU.
Günter Ecker, the head of Vienna's human rights association (VMÖ), expects the trend to continue. "Many Iraqis say that they expected better social care here, and many also had a misleading idea of how long the asylum process might take. They didn't realise that they might have to wait a year or more until their families could join them here."
Just think of it. We didn’t get a lot of stuff and food and were not treated like Kings of creation, so we are going back.
SO why did you leave in the first place? If you are a refugee, where s the fear for your life and fear for your safety?
They are almost all economic refugees who want something given to them. And having been in both of those countries multiple times, I know that their Imams are telling them that the West OWES them all of this.
Keeping savings as jewelry is fairly common in many third-world cultures. If your wife walks across a border with a few thousand in gold under her blouse, it is reasonably liquid and not easy to devalue like currency from say Outer Mongolia.
“While well-intentioned, this is a despicable policy and sounds too much like the Nazis.”
When do they start yanking gold-filled teeth?
Those gorgeous lampshades can’t be too far behind...
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