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Gilgamech's avatar

I don’t think it’s necessarily a paradox. At certain parts of their history both the UK and US left were anti immigration. Basically coinciding with when those parties were aligned to the working class (unlike now) - as the some of the quotes in the article mention.

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The Naive Ignorant's avatar

Thanks for the nice article Mark. This was a nice summary of Danish immigration politics.

I agree that it is a paradox to have a center-left government that actually endorses strict(er) migration policies.

Maybe it is relevant to mention here that when it comes to immigration, the Danish political spectrum is heavily tilted towards the right. So even a center-left government, still stands quite right on that spectrum. And with parties like DF making absurd suggestions, anything else seems like a reasonable compromise. So M. Frederiksen will happily accept that compromise, since it doesn't make her look like a racist (because she said no to the absurd suggestions), but also gains sympathy of the people by actually implementing stricter policies.

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