Perussuomalaiset (PS)* Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Ville Tavio not only recently praised Donald Trump’s speech at Davos but President Javier Millei’s policies in Argentina. Those two admissions by Tavio reveal how the minister would turn Finand into a hellhole for migrants and Finns.
Finnish ICE? A raving Trump-loving lapdog who impoverishes and sends 50% of the population to poverty?
Apart from austerity measures forcing poverty rates to climb, Finland has more for now carried out the same policies of driving people to poverty.
“We agreed to continue communicating about effective ways to break down regulations,” Tavio was quoted as saying in state-party media Suomen Uutiset. “Perhaps Finland can learn from Argentina’s experiences. Of course, we still have the challenge of the EU, which is a bureaucratic superpower.”
An Argentinean family tells about their plight under Millei.
“This is very hard. Before, we had a home. We had access to subsidies. But [the Argentinian government] suddenly took everything away,” Marianela Abasto told Al Jazeera, her face a mix of sadness and resignation. “I don’t know what we are going to do.”
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According to the Finnish Institution for Health and Welfare (THL), government austerity policies have driven 110,000 people into poverty. Of these, 27,000 are minors.
Just like Trump weaponizes ICE to go after “Illegal” immigrants, the latter is only an excuse to intimidate and go after all of his enemies.
Last year was the deadliest by ICE causing 32 people to lose thir live.
Rounding up and deporting convicted foreigners is only the first step. Just like we are witnessing in the United States, ICE is used to intimidate Trump’s enemies. We should be very concerned about the champagne-saluting government that drives people into misery. The post is by PS MP Sanna Atikainen, a raging Islamophobe like Tavio.
