Closing the borders alone won't fix the problems
Summary
DHH argues that Denmark's strict immigration policies, while widely praised and emulated by Sweden and Germany, have not solved the integration problems caused by decades of immigration from MENAPT countries. He presents evidence from 2025 Danish media showing ongoing issues with school violence, women's safety in nightlife, and sports violence linked to immigrant descendants. The core argument is that second-generation immigrants are statistically more problematic than their parents, undermining the thesis that time and assimilation will resolve these issues. He concludes that even closing borders is insufficient because existing populations of maladjusted descendants will continue causing problems for decades.
Key Insight
Closing borders to new immigration is necessary but insufficient β European countries face decades of compounding integration failures because second-generation MENAPT immigrants are assimilating less, not more, than their parents.
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That's an explosive point because it blows up the thesis that time will solve these problems. Showing instead that it actually just makes it worse. And then what?
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Meaning even if European countries 'close the borders', they're still condemned to deal with the damning effects of maladjusted MENAPT immigrant descendants for decades to come.
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Obviously, if you're in a hole, you should stop digging. And Sweden has done just that. But just because you aren't compounding the problem doesn't mean you've found a way out.
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Denmark proves to be both a positive example of minimizing the digging while also a cautionary tale that the hole is still there.
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The very same countries that until recently condemned the lack of open-arms/open-border policies they would champion as Moral Superpowers.
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Descendants of MENAPT immigrants are more likely to be violent and troublesome than their parents.
Tone
critical, provocative, analytical
