As the debate about smykkeloven went the highest in January 2016, it was with criticism from both home and abroad.
Several imagined that the refugees almost would be undressed at the border and stripped of the few belongings they may have got with on their perilous journey.
But different it was.
on Saturday, 26. January fills the law three years, and in that time it has only been used ten times. Not one piece of jewelry taken. In turn, the police have seized approximately 186.800 dollars and a car.
a few applications, according to Jacob Mark, group in SF, that the law is more to sight than to benefit.
– We believe that instead of making some symbolic austerity measures should make a new and humane asylum system, which makes that people do not need to escape.
if you Ask in contrast, aliens and integration minister Inger Støjberg (V), it is not a problem with the few seizures.
– It is certainly in principle, that can support themselves, so be it. It applies to danes, and this applies to the refugees who come here, she writes to news agency Ritzau.
That 2018 is the year since 2008, where the fewest have sought asylum, is, according to the minister just a proof that smykkeloven and the other austerity measures in immigration matters to work.
Although smykkeloven was contentious, it was adopted by a broad majority in the Danish Parliament. Behind it stood the Left, the Liberal Alliance, The Conservative party, the Danish people’s Party and the Social democratic party.
the Danish people’s udlændingeordfører, Martin Henriksen, has several times in the media expressed that he would like a tighter law with the ability to check asylum seekers ‘ funds in foreign bank accounts.
The idea is During the udlændingeordfører, Mattias Tesfaye, in favour of.
– I think it is quite logical that when there is talk about values over 10,000 dollars, so it applies, regardless of whether they are located in the back pocket or stands on a German bank account, he says.
despite the fact that Støjberg is known for a cash course in immigration policy, she talks not for tightening.
– I find it hard to see for me, how we need to control what you are standing on a bank account abroad.
She backed up by Jacob Mark, however, believes that rejected asylum seekers will probably leave the country faster, if they are allowed to keep their money.
