The UK government is expected to announce changes to the country’s immigration rules modelled on Denmark's immigration system, which is widely seen as one of the most demanding in Europe, to mitigate the number of people arriving via unauthorized routes.
Concerns about immigration have been growing over the last five years, driven in part by the number of migrants arriving in Britain through small boat crossings.
It has been observed that the Labour government also encounters major obstacles from Nigel Farage’s Reform party, which is ahead in the polls.
The Reform Party undertakes to transform the immigration system if it gains power, most notably by scrapping the right of migrants to qualify for permanent residency in the UK after five years.
Even after eliminating data from 2020- a year marked by significant travel restrictions due to the pandemic-the number of people granted asylum in Denmark is at a 40-year low.
Meanwhile, people personally targeted by foreign regimes are normally given more stable protection by Denmark. This is in contrast to the government’s frequent practice of retaining the right to return an asylum seeker to their home country when that country is declared safe.
Some critics observe that Danish law penalizes people from certain ethnic groups who live in housing estates set aside as parallel societies (where more than half of the people belong to non-western origin), making them ineligible for family reunification.
Denmark’s immigration policies were designed by the center-left Social Democrats and are seen as pivotal to the party maintaining power; consequently, they have faced fierce condemnation from the left of the British Labour party.
Moreover, some Labour MPs, specifically those in red wall constituencies -traditional Labour-supporting areas have welcomed the possibility of moving closer to a Danish model.
Modeled on Denmark’s immigration system, restrictive regulations are viewed as a crucial means of achieving political objectives, mitigating asylum applications and making the country an undesirable location for irregular migration.
