Denmark's strict migration policy very succesful: Asylum requests dropped 84% in two years
Denmark has had a clear and consistent message to asylum seekers in the last two years: stay away. The latest figures on the number of people seeking asylum in the country suggests that message has finally sunk in.
Denmark received just 3,458 asylum applications in 2017—an 84% drop from 2015 (when the refugee crisis saw a dramatic peak in the number of asylum seekers in Europe). The government puts the drop down to the 67 anti-immigrant (link in Danish) regulations it has passed since 2015.
Among the 67 regulations the government passed is a controversial law that forces refugees entering the country to hand over their valuables as compensation for seeking asylum in the country. The law gives police officers the right to search refugees’ possessions and seize cash and individual items exceeding 10,000 Danish kroner ($1,616). Human rights organizations likened it to the Nazis’s seizing of Jewish belongings during the Holocaust.
Denmark has become a far less welcoming place to refugees since the 2015 elections were won by a centre-right coalition.
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