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UK looking at Denmark model to cut illegal migration
UK Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood aims to reduce asylum claims and ease expulsions by adopting Denmark's stricter immigration rules, which cut successful asylum claims to a 40-year low.
- Later this month, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will announce major immigration changes after dispatching officials to Copenhagen last month to study Denmark's immigration system, the BBC reports.
- Pressure from a detected re-entry on October 18 and more Channel small-boat crossings has increased calls for deterrents to reduce incentives and ease removals, Shabana Mahmood says.
- Officials note Denmark's tighter family reunion and temporary-stay rules, saying refugees face age, employment, benefit and language tests, and 'parallel societies' restrict family reunion; Rasmus Stoklund said, `We have tightened our laws in many ways.`
- Labour MPs are split over adopting Danish-style measures, with White leading 50 'Red Wall' MPs urging tougher steps while Nadia Whittome warns the policies are 'far-right'.
- Denmark's record of driving asylum claims to a 40-year low shows, with controversial measures like demolition powers and offers of up to £24,000 for voluntary returns, which the UK likely won't copy, Rasmus Stoklund said.
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Leaning Left8Leaning Right2Center4Last UpdatedBias Distribution57% Left
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