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Iceland Reverses Course Freezes Out Rush of Venezuelan Migrants
2024-06-24
[Breitbart] Icelandic officials are pulling back on their former support for Venezuela

...a country in Central America that sits on an enormous pool of oil. Formerly the most prospereous country in the region, it became infested with Commies sniffing almost unlimited wealth. It turned out the wealth wasn't unlimited, the economy collapsed under the clownish Hugo Chavez, the murder rate exceeded places like Honduras and El Salvador. A significant proportion of the populace refugeed to Colombia and points south...

n migrants colonists, and deported 180 immigrants colonists who had only recently arrived in the Nordic country.

The about face comes on the tail of moves by the Icelandic parliament to change policy on immigration to be more in line with that of other Nordic countries, according to Icelandic Monitor.

The bill was wildly popular — even among the left-wing Green Party — and among its internal provisions allows Iceland to ignore the U.N. and its open border-styled immigration policy demands.

The legislation reportedly sets stricter conditions for residency, family migration, and other measures.

With the mood shifting against Venezuelans, especially, authorities deported 180 recent Venezuelan migrants colonists all at once. The deportations were carried out by Iceland’s Directorate of Immigration and the European border agency Frontex, according to Iceland Review.
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Posted by:Skidmark

#1  ...Iceland does NOT mess around. IIRC, they still insist on a curfew for US military personnel there, and there's damned few Icelandic dependents.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski   2024-06-24 09:28  

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