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UK looking at Denmark model to cut illegal migration (Hobbit games) - C C - Nov 9, 2025
https://news.sky.com/story/uk-looking-at-denmark-model-to-cut-illegal-migration-13466272
EXCERPT: The Home Office is looking at what Denmark is doing to cut illegal migration [...] Denmark has adopted increasingly restrictive rules in order to deal with migration over the last few years.
In Denmark, most asylum or refugee statuses are temporary. Residency can be revoked once a country is deemed safe. In order to achieve settlement, asylum seekers are required to be in full-time employment, and the length of time it takes to acquire those rights has been extended.
Denmark also has tougher rules on family reunification - both the sponsor and their partner are required to be at least 24 years old, which the Danish government says is designed to prevent forced marriages. The sponsor must also not have claimed welfare for three years and must provide a financial guarantee for their partner. Both must also pass a Danish language test.
In 2018, Denmark introduced what it called a ghetto package, a controversial plan to radically alter some residential areas, including by demolishing social housing. Areas with over 1,000 residents were defined as ghettos if more than 50% were "immigrants and their descendants from non-Western countries".
In 2021, the left of centre government passed a law that allowed refugees arriving on Danish soil to be moved to asylum centres in a partner country - and subsequently agreed with Rwanda to explore setting up a program, although that has been put on hold.
It comes as the government continues to struggle to get immigration under control, with rising numbers of small boat crossings in the Channel over the last few months and a migrant, deported under the UK's returns deal with France, re-entering the country. Some 648 people crossed the Channel to Britain in nine boats on Friday, according to Home Office figures, bringing the total for the year to 38,223.
[...] Speaking on BBC Radio 4, Rasmus Stoklund [...] said of Denmark: "We are a small country. We live peacefully and quietly with each other. I guess you could compare us to the hobbits in the Lord of the Rings. We expect people who come here to participate and contribute positively, and if they don't, they aren't welcome." (MORE - missing details)
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