Bertram Online is getting more and more
angry with Danish government about their immigration policies:
As explained earlier, the government has paid for its majority with a series of concessions to the xenophobic Danish People?s Party. Fulfilling their election campaign promises of ?being tough? on immigration (and, conveniently, riding on the wave of anti-Muslim sentiments triggered by 911) they started off by the implementing rather draconian limits on the already very tight rules for family reunification. Of course, in order not to get into too much international disregard they could not put into the law itself what they would gladly say in public, namely that this was aimed at limiting the immigration from places such as Somalia, Turkey and Pakistan.
Predictably, it has now been seen in practice what many predicted back then: that this would also hit situations where a Danish citizen?a white one, one should add?wants to marry a furriner from outside the EU. Damn. Complaints are rolling in. Exchange students met nice, clean All- American boys or girls?and cannot live with them here. And so forth.
What to do? Our supposedly intelligent Minister of Integration?a man that has written many a book about lofty issues, but also a book of light verse?has invented the so-called love visa. A special kind of visa that the powers-that-be can issue on their own discretion to accommodate situations where a spouse is from a desirable location.
How elegant. He thinks that he can avoid a furor about an openly ?racist? law, but instead introduces a totally arbitrary, uncontrollable system that is highly unusual, to the least, for a purported democracy such as ours. There is certain stench about it all?