US EditionDenmark unveils legal reform to allow the worst foreign criminals to be deported
The law targets foreigners sentenced to at least one year for serious crimes, with 315 non-EU offenders not expelled in five years, officials said.
- Denmark will introduce legislation to allow the expulsion of foreign criminals, despite potential conflicts with Europe's human rights court.
- Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen stated that her government will not wait for the court to revise its interpretation of human rights regarding immigration.
- The proposed reforms will require foreign nationals to be sentenced to at least one year for serious crimes to be deported.
- The reform aims to expel non-Danish citizens guilty of serious crimes such as aggravated assault and rape.
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The Danish government intends to automatically deport foreign citizens who have been sentenced to at least one year in prison, which will apply from 1 May and will deal with serious violent and sexual crimes.
Denmark goes through hard: foreign offenders will be deported faster and more consistently in the future.
The Danish government has announced that it will deport all foreign citizens who have been sentenced to at least one year in prison from May 1st, for example, crimes such as assault and rape, the Danish Ministry of Migration announced on Friday. "It is right and necessary that the European states can sit down and say that we prefer to protect our countries rather than criminals," said Denmark's head of government Mette Frederiksen. When drafting…
Mette Frederiksen tightens the migration policy in Denmark: Criminal foreigners are to be deported directly. Prerequisite is the conviction to a prison sentence of at least one year.
From one year on, foreign offenders will be automatically deported from Denmark, which is contrary to the European Convention on Human Rights.
Migrants who have committed serious crimes in Denmark are to be automatically deported from May 1st. Prerequisite is the conviction to a prison sentence of at least one year.
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