Bernie Sanders’s Beloved Denmark To Confiscate Migrants’ Valuable Property

Coming from Bernie Sanders’s poster country for how “well” his socialist policies are going to go should he be elected president, this might be a tad on-the-nose. Then again – what else do you expect from a country that’s operated on welfare programs based on redistribution of wealth for so long?

According to this, Denmark has passed legislation that will enable them to seize valuable property from migrants in order to help cover the costs of granting these refugees asylum. Because – NEWSFLASH – it costs money to help these people! Not just the direct monetary cost of providing food, shelter, and education (everything from learning a new language to teaching migrants that it’s not nice to grab women’s butts), but also the cost of increased security and police presence because migrants all across Europe have proven that they are NOT housebroken and they can’t play well with others outside of their cultural group (and even within their cultural group, there are massive problems).

CNN has more details –

The passing of the so-called jewelry bill allows the seizure of valuables worth more than 10,000 Danish kroner (about $1,453).

Items of “special sentimental value” such as “wedding rings, engagement rings, family portraits, decorations and medals” are exempted, according to the Danish Ministry of Immigration, Integration and Housing. But “watches, mobile phones and computers” can be confiscated, it says.

Of course, since Europe is just one big cesspool of self-hating cultural suicide, many European officials are critical of Denmark doing this, saying that it’s so MEEEEEEAN to take away valuable items from these poor, picked-on refugees and all they want is a better life (of course, these refugees’ version of “a better life” looks to be eerily similar to the third-world hole that they just escaped from) –

The legislation has been criticized across the political spectrum, appalling many in this northern European nation, which has a longstanding global reputation for tolerance and promoting liberal, social democratic values.

Rights group Amnesty International slammed the law, saying in a statement that it reflected a “dismal race to the bottom” by European countries in response to the migrant crisis.

“To prolong the suffering of vulnerable people who have been ripped apart from their families by conflict or persecution is plain wrong,” John Dalhuisen, the group’s Europe and Central Asia director, said in a statement.

“Today’s meanspirited vote in Danish parliament seeks not only to pilfer the possessions refugees cling to, but also to needlessly lengthen their separation from their loved ones.”

I’m often critical of Denmark and their welfare state policies – but maybe this is an indication that they’ve finally figured it out and they’ve had too much of it? (Unlikely, but one can hope.) I mean, they’ve already talked about cutting back social programs because of the overwhelming influx of migrants from the Middle East and they just can’t afford to support anymore refugees. How is this big government overreach any different from their obscene welfare culture?

Basically – it’s not.