[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com]
We don’t get a lot information out of Iceland. It’s one other a kind of un-newsworthy locations, like Uruguay or New Zealand, slumbering in quiet, contented prosperity away from the noise and fuss that prevails elsewhere. Once we do get information out of Iceland it’s often generated by Mom Nature, not by Her human youngsters: a volcanic eruption or an earthquake.
So it’s good to see that when the Icelanders themselves generate information, it’s information of a cheerful type, at any price from the Nationwide Conservative perspective.
So it was this week. Extra exactly, final week: on June thirteenth Iceland’s parliament, the Althing (based 930 AD, one the world’s oldest surviving parliaments) handed an immigration invoice that primarily targets asylum seekers.
I ought to say, simply to make clear, that the phrase “asylum seekers” right here is not getting used within the unfastened approach we’ve grow to be accustomed to from our personal media, to seek advice from anybody in any respect who wanders into your nation with out going via correct immigration procedures, whether or not or not they hassle truly to hunt asylum. Right here it means unlawful border-crossers who actually do declare asylum, actually or falsely, on the grounds they had been persecuted again house.
This invoice that was simply handed decrees that if an alien’s asylum declare is rejected, he’ll lose all entry to advantages—housing, healthcare, and so forth—after thirty days.
That sounds truthful to me. This report I’m studying, nevertheless, says that
Human rights organisations in Iceland have strongly opposed the invoice, together with the Pink Cross, UNICEF, and Amnesty Worldwide.
Breaking :
Iceland is doubling down.
Immigration invoice authorised by the Minister of Justice
The immigration invoice of Minister of Justice Guðrún Hafsteinsdóttir has been authorised by Althingi.
Iceland’s Parliament, Alþingi, handed a extremely controversial immigration invoice final… pic.twitter.com/1LrkTLv1k2
— Keira Connolly (@keira_con) June 14, 2024
Studying that makes the invoice sound even higher.
The Minister of Justice who signed the invoice is Guðrún Hafsteinsdóttir
Iceland has a kind of parliamentary programs wherein totally different events, on this case three totally different events, type a coalition to legislate and govern. All of the members of parliament from all three of the coalition events voted for this invoice.
I used to be amused to see that one of many lesser events voting in opposition to the invoice was the Pirate Get together, which holds six seats within the Althing and is outwardly libertarian—I wrote about them in 2016.
Pictured beneath: Ásta Helgadóttir, a Pirate Get together MP on the time:
For the tendency of Scandinavian feminine politicians to seem like that, somewhat than like Hillary Clinton, see right here, right here, right here, and right here.
The Pirates submitted greater than twenty amendments to the invoice, however just one was authorised.
One of many Pirate Get together MPS sputtered angrily that, quote:
This difficulty confirms the stance I’ve held for a very long time, which is that this authorities is hostile to refugees.
One purpose this invoice got here ahead was that Iceland has been brisk about deportations of failed asylum seekers, together with lately an Iraqi man in a wheelchair and an Albanian lady in her ninth month of being pregnant. The human-rights individuals raised protests; the politicians figured the legislation wanted firming up.
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A somewhat nifty YouTube video I found when shopping tells me that the principle supply international locations for immigrants to Iceland are at the moment, so as: Poland (approach out forward), Denmark, Germany, Sweden, Lithuania, the Philippines, Norway, Romania, Thailand, the U.Ok., Latvia, Portugal, and the usA.
I dunno: Appears to me that the place Iceland’s immigration coverage is anxious, there’s rather a lot to love.
John Derbyshire [email him] writes an unbelievable quantity on all kinds of topics for every kind of shops. (This now not consists of Nationwide Evaluation, whose editors had some form of tantrum and fired him.) He’s the writer of We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism and a number of other different books. He has had two books revealed by VDARE.com com: FROM THE DISSIDENT RIGHT (additionally accessible in Kindle) and FROM THE DISSIDENT RIGHT II: ESSAYS 2013.
