ER Editor: Is ANYTHING REAL in the news right now? We hope this is. At any rate, there is more ‘official’ cracking down on immigration policy by the UK govt., courtesy of Denmark, the same country ‘opposing’ Trump on Greenland. It’s clear from the article that Denmark has been set up going back several years as the ‘tough on migration’ country. (By whom?) Alas, we have not been able to include that information below.
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Denmark has a snap election, incidentally, on March 24, moved up from October, allegedly to capitalize on the govt’s popularity in relation to Trump. Hmm. We wonder what circus will transpire out of that —
Mette Frederiksen announces Denmark will hold snap election on March 24
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‘That resentment is real’: Mahmood’s Denmark visit aims to hammer home tough line on immigration
On tour of returns centre, home secretary says ‘legitimate grievances’ have to be acknowledged as part of ‘responsible’ politics
RAJEEV SYAL for THE GUARDIAN
The UK home secretary, Shabana Mahmood, and Danish immigration officials strode through the bleak and chilly Sjælsmark returns centre, a former military barracks used to house men and women who have no right to remain in the country. Followed by photographers, reporters and civil servants, Mahmood was told of the strict conditions in which hundreds of people live after asylum and right to remain appeals are rejected and before many are sent to other countries.
Sjælsmark, about 20 miles north of Copenhagen, is at the sharp end of an asylum system set up by Denmark’s left-leaning Social Democrat government (ER: contradictory: left-leaning yet anti-migrant) to deter claimants. As well as those facing swift deportations, refugees are given temporary permission to stay and will later be told to leave if their countries of origin are deemed safe.
Mahmood’s two-day visit to the country last week was meant to hammer home a message that some Labour MPs have found difficult to stomach: that the UK must replicate the Danish immigration model if Labour is to defeat the rise of a populist right. (ER: Aha! it’s about winning elections, LOL. Like Gorton and Denton a few days ago?)
The home secretary has since defied demands to rethink her hardline immigration policies after Labour’s crushing defeat to the Green party in Thursday’s Gorton and Denton byelection. (ER: …)
Speaking to the Guardian on the day before the byelection result, Mahmood urged her colleagues to acknowledge that the UK public had “legitimate grievances” about the unfairness of allowing people to arrive in small boats and the strain on public services from excessive immigration.
“There are people who are racist, who do just hate everybody that’s not white and different to them. Those people are not legitimate in this debate,” Mahmood said. “There are many more people who are frustrated with the broken system, who feel a tremendous amount of resentment because they can see their communities under pressure. Public services are under pressure. People break the rules and they stay in this country.
“We’re paying for people who’ve got no right to be in this country. Billions of pounds is spent on a system that is fundamentally broken. That resentment is real, and it does have a real-life impact … The job of responsible politicians is to recognise human nature and resentment and to say: ‘I don’t really want that to turn into something worse.’” (ER: Wow)
It could get much worse, Mahmood said, because a Nigel Farage-led government would send people who have been in the UK for decades back to dangerous regimes where they faced torture and genocide.
“A Reform government will raise the drawbridge entirely. They say they will deport people at a scale so great, they can only be doing so by returning people to places where they face certain death,” she said.
Danish camps such as Sjælsmark, set up in 2015, in effect function as open prisons, according to refugee campaigners. Housed in one- and two-storey buildings and with 10 people sleeping in some rooms, those sent to Sjælsmark must sign a contract saying they will help clean the facilities and stick to strict curfews or face fines, imprisonment or deportation.
On paper, the rejected asylum seekers are allowed to leave the barracks, but the high fences, CCTV cameras and single entrance and exit point mean that few choose to do so, according to staff.
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After the introduction of a harsh new regime, Denmark has among the most restrictive immigration systems in Europe. In 2024, just 860 people were granted asylum, though a temporary protection scheme provided permits to 10,000 Ukrainians. In 2025, 2,600 people were deported after having their claims rejected.
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After holding a meeting with Mahmood, Rasmus Stoklund, the minister for immigration and integration, said his country would push forward with the so-called “ghetto law” that allows the state to demolish apartment blocks where at least half of residents have a “non-western” background.
“We don’t want parallel societies. We won’t accept them and we won’t accept the norms of imams or anyone else trying to dominate areas of Denmark,” Stoklund told LBC radio. “It is important that kids, when they go to school in the morning that they see that the adults in the neighbourhood go to work, that they don’t just hang around in this neighbourhood, and that they also experience what the majority culture is like, that they don’t grow up in a part of Denmark which might as well could have been part of the greater Middle East.”
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Featured image source: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/mar/01/shabana-mahmood-denmark-uk-immigration
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