© Claus Fisker
Migrants, mainly from Syria, prepare to board a train headed for Sweden, at Padborg station in southern Denmark, then to the camps...
The Danish parliament has passed measures aimed at deterring refugees from seeking asylum, including the confiscation of their valuables and a delay in family reunifications. The move has received widespread condemnation from human rights organizations.
Asylum seekers arriving in Denmark
will now have to hand over cash exceeding 10,000 kroner (US$1,450) and any personal items valued at more than that amount. This is more than three times the 3,000 kroner ($435) that was originally proposed. However, wedding rings and other sentimental items will be exempt from confiscation.
Integration Minister Inger Stojberg said the goal of the new legislation is for Denmark to become "significantly less attractive for asylum-seekers," AFP reported.
The center-right Danish government says the measures are aimed at covering the cost of each asylum seeker's support from the state, and is similar to requirements for Danish citizens receiving welfare benefits. However, Danes are not subject to the kinds of searches proposed in the new refugee law.
Some have compared the new measures to the confiscation of gold and other valuables from Jews by the Nazis during the Holocaust. But Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen of the right-wing Venstre party has
shrugged off the criticism, calling it the "most misunderstood bill in Denmark's history."
The new legislation will also prevent refugees from applying to be reunited with their family for three years, and will only give Syrian war refugees one year's protection. "I'm afraid that it will lead to an incentive structure where refugees bring their children with them," parliament member Mette Gjerskov told
Berlingske newspaper.
Berlingske said ahead of the vote that she was one of three Social Democrats planning to vote against their own party. "
We have seen plenty of children in rubber boats on the Mediterranean," the lawmaker added. International human rights organizations have also condemned the three-year delay for reunification applications.
Comment: In a global pathocracy, your country is invaded, bombed and destroyed and its assets are stolen; you lose touch with your family and friends or they're killed due to the occupation. And, if you
run, the pathocrats will take your personal belongings and then lock you up in a 'special camp'.
The above comparison to Nazi Germany is 100% accurate. What happened there was on a micro-social scale. The rampant paranoia and hatred of Muslims is the same as what happened to the Jews, but NOW we are seeing it on a macro-social scale - the entire planet. This is such a gruesome agenda by the psychopaths in power.
Comment: Further reading: