A 26-year-old human trafficking victim has been locked up with her two six-year-old children at the Joutseno immigration removal center, which the victim has described as a jail, according to Yle. The young Nigerian mother was sent to the immigration removal center on 18 February and is awaiting deportation back to Italy on 25 March….
Tag: Finland
Stopping a deportation of an Iraqi family
I have covered and written many news stories about deportations of asylum seekers. The last one was from a family that called me pleading if I could find them a lawyer because their appeal was rejected. When the asylum seeker broke the news about the appeal over the phone, a sense of powerlessness overtook me….
Uutissuomalainen: The government’s anti-racism training lasts an hour (including discussion included!)
You cannot make this up. National Coalition Party Prime Minister Petteri Orpo’s government plans to offer an hour-long anti-racism training for the government. The training has been postponed to after the municipal and regional elections of April. “It will be an intensive training of about an hour, including discussion,” Katriina Nousiainen, project manager and senior…
Evidence shows why the Perussuomalaiset party is “openly Islamophobic”
I’m always surprised by the aha moment of the mainstream media when it comes to the hostile and polarizing message of the Perussuomalaiset (PS).* After PS Interior Minister Mari Rantanen was caught with her hand in the cookie jar by attempting to favor Christians over Muslims in the quota-refugee scheme, Finland’s biggest daily reported that…
Ahti Tolvanen:* On Finland’s role between two superpowers
In the news today we hear that Trump is planning to make Greenland part of the USA “one way or another.”Greenland is part of Denmark, our Nordic ally. We in Finland recognize a special duty to protect our Nordic allies. That’s part of why we joined NATO. The problem is that the United States controls…
The Perussuomalaiset are “openly Islamophobic,” according to the non-discrimination ombudsman
The Perussuomalaiset (PS)* party is known for its hostility and attacks against migrants and minorities as well as anyone who dares call them what they are: a party that peddles racism. In a statement Thursday, the non-discrimination ombudsman, said that the actions of PS Minister of Interior Mari Rantanen were discriminatory when the ministry attempted…
Europe without immigrants is like death without life
Sunday’s German election told us an important fact: It pays to attack migrants relentlessly. Even if we do not want to make direct references to the rise of the Nazis in 1933 and the devastating impact it still has on us, we are entering a new phase in Europe that has its past troubled history…
Europe is toothless and lost
When EU Commissioner for Technological Sovereignty Henna Virkunen (National Coalition Party) and Interior Minister Mari Rantanen (Perussuomalaiset, PS*) meet to boost confidence in Nato’s ability to protect its subsea cables, but the total opposite. Their political record and their extremist stance on asylum seekers reveals why Europe is toothless and lost in the face of…
Sanitzing racism in Finland with the help of labelling
With the Örbero mass shooting, the worst in Sweden overtaken now by time and denial, a question remains: Who speaks up for migrants or New Swedes? The sad truth is few if any. What is even sader the silence has grown and is defeaning. In a brilliant column, Mehdi Hasan writes about how DEI, which…
Linkedin: Down the populist path
A good question is why the public’s fascination with far-right populism has caught on. US President Donald Trump is one sour example but so is the changing political landscape of Europe. In Finland, Prime Minister Petteri Orpo’s National Coalition Party (NCP) believes it can continue to do business with the anti-immigration Finns Party (PS) and form…