❓WHAT HAPPENED: The Danish People’s Party has proposed a comprehensive “remigration” plan to tighten Denmark’s immigration policies and bolster social cohesion.
👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: Morten Messerschmidt, leader of the Danish People’s Party, and migrants in Denmark.
📍WHEN & WHERE: Reported on October 16, 2025, on X (formerly Twitter).
🎯IMPACT: The plan has sparked heated debate, with critics calling it discriminatory.
Morten Messerschmidt, leader of the Danish People’s Party (DF), has crafted an ambitious plan to overhaul Denmark’s immigration policies, according to online news platform Visegrád 24. The populist party’s proposals are extensive and go far beyond mass deportations, also targeting legal and naturalized immigrants with criminal records and ties to Islamist institutions.
The plan’s key components involve reviewing all citizenships granted over the past two decades, with mandatory reconfirmation for those issued in the last eight years. It suggests revoking the citizenship of convicted criminals and the withdrawal of foreign aid from countries that refuse to accept their own citizens back.
Messerschmidt also wants to establish high-security deportation centers and permanent border controls—a direct challenge to the European Union’s “free movement” migration regime—overseen by a new Ministry of repatriation, and Denmark’s de facto withdrawal from European and international conventions that obstruct deportations or facilitate chain migration through so-called “family reunification” rights.
Further measures to discourage migrants from entering Denmark are requirements for foreign criminals to serve their sentences abroad, a ban on remittances, bans on the Islamic call to prayer and on Islamic headscarves at public institutions, and the abolition of permanent residence permits. Islamic schools would also be banned, along with foreign funding of Islamic religious communities, which would also lose state recognition.
While the Danish People’s Party has never entered government in Denmark, it has been influential in the Scandinavian country’s multi-party system, previously supporting center-right coalitions in exchange for strong legislation on immigration. Denmark’s left-leaning parties have also become uncharacteristically strong on immigration relative to other left-leaning parties, to answer the electoral challenge of populists like Messerschmidt.
The leader of the Danish Peoples Party @MrMesserschmidt, has just announced his party’s big remigration and repatriation plan:
✈️ Review all citizenships granted over the past 20 years
✈️ Reconfirm all citizenships granted in the past 8 years
✈️ Revoke citizenships from… pic.twitter.com/2qap66GYpu
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) October 16, 2025
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