Danish parliament adopts controversial asylum seeker reforms to seize valuables, delay family reunifications

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Danish parliament adopts controversial asylum seeker reforms to seize valuables, delay family reunifications

Postby Dr Frook » 26 Jan 2016, 20:45

not sure if I can understand this move... all these people have lost just about everything already... maybe.

Asylum seekers arriving in Denmark will have cash and valuables taken from them at the border under controversial new laws adopted by the country's parliament overnight.

The reforms, aimed at dissuading refugees and migrants from seeking asylum, also include provisions to delay family reunifications, and have sparked widespread condemnation.

Key points
•Denmark approves new asylum seeker reforms
•The reforms include confiscating valuables
•The move has attracted widespread criticism
•Denmark answers that it has no alternative

The government insists the law is needed to stem the flow of asylum seekers even though Denmark and Sweden recently tightened their borders, a move that prompted Germany and Austria to turn back new arrivals heading for Scandinavia.

The bill, presented by the right-wing minority government of Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen, was approved by a huge majority of 81 of the 109 MPs present, as members of the opposition Social Democrats backed the measures.

"There's no simple answer for a single country, but until the world comes together on a joint solution [to the migrant crisis], Denmark needs to act," MP Jakob Ellemann-Jensen of Rasmussen's Venstre party said during the debate.

The legislation stirred great controversy, with Mr Rasmussen defending it as "the most misunderstood bill in Denmark's history."

International outrage has focused on plans to allow police to seize cash and valuables from refugees and migrants to help pay for their stay in asylum centres, while rights activists have blasted a proposed three-year delay for family reunifications which they say breaches international conventions.

Some have likened the Danish proposals to the confiscation of gold and other valuables from Jews by the Nazis during the Holocaust.

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Re: Danish parliament adopts controversial asylum seeker reforms to seize valuables, delay family reunifications

Postby Shadowstar1922 » 27 Jan 2016, 20:48

this is so horrible. these people are fleeing from war and famine and disease.
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Postby Dr Frook » 31 Jan 2016, 22:10

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