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Danish prime minister wants country to accept 'zero' asylum seekers
The Local - DK ^ | 22 January 2021

Posted on 01/24/2021 5:11:56 AM PST by george76

Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen says her ambition is for Denmark not to offer asylum to any refugees at all. The PM said that she wanted to reduce asylum applications in Denmark to zero during comments in parliament.

“That’s what our target is. Of course, we can’t promise it,” she said.

“We can’t promise zero asylum seekers but we can create a vision, like we did before the election, that we want a new asylum system and then do what we can to implement it,” she continued.

2020 saw a total of 1,547 asylum seekers registered in Denmark, the lowest number since records began in their current form in 1998.

The number is less than one tenth of the total recorded in 2015, when 21,316 people applied for asylum in Denmark at the peak of the European migration crisis.

A combination of the Covid-19 pandemic and Denmark’s stringent rules and policies are considered to be factors in the low figure for 2020, the immigration ministry said earlier this week.

In 2019, Frederiksen’s government said it would resume accepting refugees under the UN's quota system after a three-year hiatus under the previous administration.

But the Social Democratic government has generally pursued a strict policy on asylum and immigration, in keeping with the platform on which they won the general election two years ago.

“We must take care that not too many [refugees, ed.] come to our country, otherwise our social cohesion could not exist. It is already under threat,” Frederiksen said.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Germany; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Syria; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: asylum; denmark; europe; europeanunion; hijah; horseoutofthebarn; immigration; invasion; jihad; mettefrederiksen; moslems; muslims; refugees

1 posted on 01/24/2021 5:11:56 AM PST by george76
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> “We must take care that not too many [refugees, ed.] come to our country, otherwise our social cohesion could not exist. It is already under threat,” Frederiksen said. <

I don’t understand what she’s talking about. These Danish Muslims look quite willing to assimilate into Danish society.


2 posted on 01/24/2021 5:23:51 AM PST by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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What? National sovereignty over world collectivism. Can that work?


3 posted on 01/24/2021 5:24:00 AM PST by PGalt
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Is the EU becoming more right wing than the USA?


4 posted on 01/24/2021 5:27:03 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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Zero’s too many.


5 posted on 01/24/2021 5:30:26 AM PST by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: george76

what about people persecuted in the US seeking political asylum? asking for a friend.


6 posted on 01/24/2021 5:30:57 AM PST by newnhdad (Our new motto: USA, it was fun while it lasted.)
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Back nearly two decades ago, I was chatting with the manager of a Radio Shack. (Yeah, that was a long time ago.) He had immigrated from the Netherlands. I asked him why, since the media presents that area as paradise. He got spitting mad. In his tirade he talked about how immigrants not only fully consumed the social services, but that immigrants in the doctor’s waiting room would sometimes assault natives so that they had to leave. He talked about areas where he used to shop and visit that had become so unsafe anyone not with dark skin was taking their life into their hands. (The term “no-go zones” had not been invented yet.) He saw the who of Europe descending into a third world hell hole.


7 posted on 01/24/2021 5:38:00 AM PST by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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No wonder she doesn't want more refugees.

Denmark's most wanted:


8 posted on 01/24/2021 5:52:05 AM PST by Bon of Babble (In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, Baby!)
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Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen says her ambition is for Denmark not to offer asylum to any refugees at all.

How politically incorrect of them. 😁

9 posted on 01/24/2021 5:56:14 AM PST by Mark17 (USAF Retired. Father of a US Air Force commissioned officer, and trained Air Force combat pilot. )
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RE: Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen says her ambition is for Denmark not to offer asylum to any refugees at all.

They can send them all to the USA for the next 4 years... Joe and Kamala will take them.


10 posted on 01/24/2021 6:24:57 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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That’s funny.


11 posted on 01/24/2021 6:29:23 AM PST by riri (Hope is not a strategy at this point- Sam Andrews)
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How Islamphobic of her.... 😀. Wouldn't you want a Muzzle as a neighbor...

I need a place to throw away my bacon grease... 😀. I throw it at the local mosque... 😀

12 posted on 01/24/2021 6:31:52 AM PST by Deplorable American1776 (We might be DEPLORABLES, but we don't CHEAT like Dem)
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To: Bon of Babble

Wow - i didn’t realize there are werewolves in Denmark!


13 posted on 01/24/2021 6:47:55 AM PST by utax
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“We must take care that not too many [refugees, ed.] come to our country, otherwise our social cohesion could not exist. It is already under threat,” [Prime Minister] Frederiksen said.

What?! Doesn't she know that "Diversity Is Strength?"

Denmark is no where near attaining "true diversity."

Regards,

14 posted on 01/24/2021 6:49:52 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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Gee, I wonder what changed their mind?


15 posted on 01/24/2021 10:16:14 AM PST by EinNYC
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To: central_va

Different countries in the EU set their own policies on many topics. Denmark has been against immigration and has integrated many for a long time. Now they want to end it to digest those they have. It’s a good move on their part


16 posted on 01/24/2021 1:57:55 PM PST by Cronos
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