Minister of Immigration and Integration Rasmus Stoklund (Socialdemokratiet, S) stated it in January. If the government’s upcoming tightening of deportation rules is to be implemented as desired, it is partly based on a »hope« that the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) will make a significant adjustment to its current case law and begin to allow many more deportations regardless of the individuals’ connections to Denmark and their home country. Specifically, all foreigners who have received a prison sentence of at least one year should be deported in the future.

And Stoklund hopes and expects that the human rights court will suddenly begin to accept such a practice because 27 countries criticized the court’s stance on deportation cases in December.