{"id":149609,"date":"2025-11-20T05:57:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T05:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/149609\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T05:57:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T05:57:09","slug":"mary-kenny-why-ireland-is-too-nice-to-copy-denmarks-tough-immigration-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/149609\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Kenny: Why Ireland is too \u2018nice\u2019 to copy Denmark\u2019s tough immigration policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Ghettoes, burqas and niqabs are banned, while asylum-seeker numbers have been reduced greatly \u2013 all in the name of integration\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Danes are proud of displaying their national flag.  Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/GettyImages-2208000321.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">The Danes are proud of displaying their national flag.  Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">I paid a visit to the Danish parliament in recent years \u2013 the location familiarly known as Borgen, after the hugely popular TV series of that name \u2013 and was astonished to hear Social Democrat politicians firmly uphold their country\u2019s tough laws on immigration and asylum. And tough, even harsh, these indeed are.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Immigrants in Denmark are not allowed to form \u201cghettoes\u201d: people have been evicted from their homes, and even housing estates have been pulled down to avoid \u201cnon-western\u201d congregation. Assets such as jewellery may be confiscated so as to contribute to a refugee\u2019s upkeep. Those seeking asylum from war-torn countries must return to their native land if peace is restored.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ghettoes, burqas and niqabs are banned, while asylum-seeker numbers have been reduced greatly \u2013 all in the name&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3025,292,61,1629,60,84892,43,1859],"class_list":["post-149609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-denmark","tag-germany","tag-ie","tag-immigration","tag-ireland","tag-mary-kenny","tag-news","tag-sweden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}