By Michael Lord
The Voice of Europe
Denmark’s Minister for Immigration and Integration, Mattias
Tesfaye, says it’s “wonderful” that more migrants left the country in 2019 than
who came in.
For the first time since 2011, Denmark’s net number of migrants
was negative, as reported by The Daily Mail. By the end of 2019, there
were 730 fewer migrants total.
The net number of migrants has been steadily decreasing in
Denmark since 2015.
According
to statistics released by Denmark’s Integration Ministry, those who left the
country were mainly Bosnians, Iraqis, Somalis, and Syrians. People from
Afghanistan, Eritrea, and Iran were the primary groups who came to the country
seeking asylum last year.
“Whenever
possible, it is only natural for refugees to return to their homeland,” Tesfaye
told The Daily Mail. “I am glad that we can give people protection while it is
needed. But I’m also happy every time a refugee can return home.”
Although
Denmark has taken a tough stance on migration in recent years, Eva Singer of
the Danish Refugee Council said that last year’s drop-off was not due to policy
but because Turkey had closed its border with the EU. Turkey reopened it in
February of this year, resulting in a new surge of migrants attempting to cross
into Greece.
Many migrants who come to Denmark only use it as a transiting
point to reach Sweden, which is well-known for its generous policies for
migrants.
The Danish government recently announced the creation of a new
agency, the Home Travel Agency, which will be tasked with arranging to have
illegal migrants sent back to their homelands, as previously reported by
Voice of Europe.
Nevertheless, the country continues to grapple with the negative
impact of mass immigration. Last month Rasmus Paludan, a Danish politician who
acts as a provocateur to expose the truth about migrants, published a
video in which he was confronted by a migrant who referred to Danes as
“animals” and said that Danes “will be exterminated,” as recounted in a
previous report by Voice
of Europe.
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