Denmark brings in strict border controls to crack down on illegal immigrants from North Africa

[dipsydoodle]

Source: Daily Mail

Denmark yesterday joined an increasing number of European countries seeking tighter border controls in an attempt to curb crime and illegal immigration.

Finance Minister Claus Hjort Frederiksen said police and customs officials will use border stations for random checks on cars and passports, and increase the use of scanners designed to detect illegal immigrants hiding in vans.

He said control booths will be erected at crossings to Germany and Sweden and in harbours and airports.

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The system has been under pressure recently with the EU Commission considering reintroducing national border controls in the face of a flood of North African immigrants.



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[Yon_Yonson]

1. Looks like a plan to me

As long as it is done within the confines of the Danish Law and applied humanly!

[aquart]

2. Won't help.

This is just the trickle before the damn bursts.

Climate change causes mass destabilization which causes population movement which causes more destabilization. Have fun in the next millennium.

If I had money, I'd put it in a Canadian wheat farm.

[Marrah_G]

4. Yup

We are selling north-shore Boston house, buying land and building a permaculture, organic, off the grid farm in far northern Vermont. Criteria for the land is focused largely on whether or not they have natural springs. I really think people are going to have to vastly change how they live in the coming decades.

[freshwest]

8. Getting ahead of the curve. Congratulations.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

6. Canadian wheat farm?

If I had money, I'd put it in a Canadian banana plantation.

And open a marina on Hudson bay, for all the Marlin sport fishing.

:hi:

[Lance_Boyle]

3. Those damn Danes! Practically NAZIS!

Who do they think they are, trying to control their own national borders? They're just lines on a map, man! *Everyone* deserves the right to be Danish, even if the Danes don't want them!


:sarcasm:

[neoralme]

5. Knew this was coming. The Danes will get it under control no matter

what they have to do.

[pampango]

7. "The agreement ... was made to meet demands from the government's nationalistic ally, the Danish

People's Party, and is expected to be approved by Parliament."

'We see a rise in cross-border crime: drugs, eastern European gangs, human trafficking, money smuggling, etc. And one of the efficient ways to fight this is border control,' Hjort Frederiksen said. 'It will be put in place as soon as possible.'

Some 270 million kroner ($52 million) have been earmarked to build booths, buy electronic equipment and provide more resources to police and customs. When Denmark joined the Schengen system a decade ago, border barriers were removed and control stations shut down. Instead, random customs and police checks were carried out across the country.

Hjort Frederiksen insisted that since the controls will be random they 'will be within the framework of the Schengen system' - a free-travel agreement that has removed compulsory passport controls between many internal borders in Europe.

The Danish People's Party (Danish: Dansk Folkeparti, DF) is a political party in Denmark which is frequently described as right-wing populist or far right by political scientists and commentators.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_People's_Party

[WatsonT]

9. It would be racist if we did it

odd.

[Hardrada]

10. They are a small country and can probably do this.

Countries with longer coast lines might have more of a problem.