Migration: Posts and News mentioning Apvienotais saraksts
Political posts and news in Migration that mention Apvienotais saraksts, from monitored Latvian public sources.
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Rihards Kols (@RihardsKols)
EP deputāts
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The Prime Minister complains that approvals are missing.
Whose duty is it, if not the Prime Minister's, to ensure that the government's work moves forward? The Prime Minister is not a clerk whose job is to note that a paper is missing from some file. The Prime Minister leads the government, convenes ministers, resolves disagreements and achieves decisions.
The government declaration states in black and white: restrict the issuing of long-term visas and residence permits, set the permissible number of third-country nationals and close schemes for legalising economic immigrants.
Mr Prime Minister, you did not stop the 'theatre'. You yourself stalled the implementation of your own government declaration.
When Interior Minister @janisdombrava has submitted concrete proposals, the Prime Minister does not organise their review and make a decision, but publicly announces that approvals are missing, and calls the work done a 'theatrical fight' and 'dull voter fishing'.
Open tunnels on the border. Raids are taking place. Immigration control is being stepped up.
Quotas for third-country nationals are being prepared, stricter requirements for foreign students and universities, control over employment intermediaries and liability for residence rule violations.
Where exactly is the theatre here?
When the Prime Minister and the Interior Minister toured the border and stood in front of cameras, that was obviously statesmanship. When uncomfortable decisions have to be made and powerful economic interests opposed, it suddenly becomes 'hysteria'.
That's where the story about procedure ends.
In one hand @AndrisKulbergs holds the government declaration promising to restrict the issuing of long-term visas and residence permits. In the other hand he holds proposals to keep investor temporary residence permits, the so-called 'golden visas'. The immigration restriction plan still needs at least 14 more approvals. The 'golden visa' idea apparently only needs an investment fund brochure and promises of rich sheikhs.
Latvia does not need an immigration policy in which security solutions can be postponed while residence permits can again be turned into a commodity. Latvia does not need a system in which the interests of universities, labour intermediaries and various investment schemes matter more than the state's ability to control who enters Latvia, why they stay here and what they do here.
If the Prime Minister objects to specific points of the plan, he should simply say so. If corrections are needed, they should be made. If ministries cannot agree, the Prime Minister should sit them at one table and reach a decision.
That is exactly what the Prime Minister is paid for. Not for videos in which he publicly scolds his government's ministers and explains to the public why the government cannot do its own job.
Restricting immigration is not theatre. The theatre begins when the Prime Minister promises one thing, brakes another and pushes a third.
DAY No. 68 in the prime minister's chair — Dombrava's imitated MIGRANT struggle
@VL_TBLNNK hysteria about immigration sometimes looks like a spoiled kindergartener.
Here is everything you need to know about @janisdombrava's 'theater battle' with immigration. 🎭
Apparently Dombrava is not interested in a real result in restricting migration, but in loud and pointless shouting. It is a pity that their own voters are fooled in this way.
Interior Minister Dombrava apparently still has not understood what it means to be a minister and how work happens in the Cabinet of Ministers. I would suggest his more experienced NA colleagues — @KasparsGerhards, @IIndriksone or Mūrniece — explain what it means to prepare and submit an informative report (IZ) to the government.
❓ How do Dombrava and NA even imagine pushing a FULLY UNSYNCHRONIZED issue to a government meeting?
Just because they felt like it?
📸 The screenshot from the MK TAP portal shows everything as clear as day:
➡️ Dombrava's informative report was submitted on Monday, 31 August, at 12:59 — only about 1.5 hours before the coalition meeting;
➡️ the document is completely unsynchronized with 14 institutions — not with the Ministry of Justice, Finance, Economy, Foreign Affairs, Welfare, Environmental Protection and Regional Development, Health, the State Chancellery, @darbadeveji, @LTRK_uznemeji, etc.
Simply coming in, throwing a document into the government and then announcing that 'everyone is against fighting immigration' is dull, cheap and populist voter fishing with no basis.
🤝 At the coalition meeting we all agreed that the document must be coordinated, and this Friday a special political meeting is being organized to agree on its content point by point.
Apparently even that seems superfluous to Dombrava, if noise is more important than results.
⚠️ And the objections are not formal — they are very substantial.
For example, Dombrava suddenly imagined suing TWO European Commission commissioners and proposing amendments to an EU directive. The Foreign Ministry has significant objections to that.
The interior minister cannot simply bypass all Cabinet working procedures, throw a document unsynchronized with anyone into the government and demand an immediate decision. Many ministers had not even had time to familiarize themselves with the document today.
📌 Moreover, there is no talk of some 'stuck coordination'. There has not even been a normal coordination cycle!
The document must first be prepared properly, go through coordination and be brought to a government decision. Only then can one say that someone is blocking it.
Dombrava simply did not do his homework.
The facts are simple:
1️⃣ A project can be submitted to the government agenda if it is submitted by Wednesday evening. This project was already submitted on Monday, 31 August, at 12:59, shortly before the coalition meeting.
2️⃣ After clarifying the project, it was not sent to ministries for a repeated opinion.
3️⃣ The argument about delay does not hold up — the report has had almost three months since the beginning of June to be prepared.
🎯 If we really want to restrict illegal migration, we need results, prepared decisions and professional work, not loud slogans and political theater.
@AndrisKulbergs@VL_TBLNNK@janisdombrava Mr. Prime Minister, do not undervalue the public so much. Everyone can surely check that the immigration restriction plan has been coordinated since July 24. More than a month! I urge you not to spread lies! https://t.co/dtIrhIjIsH
Kulbergs is dragging out Dombrava's migration plan, Rinkēvičs hastily announces the incomplete Migration Law, both support golden visas, there is no even talk about increasing the investment amount (🇱🇻 as is known they are the cheapest)... what is happening, what do we not know? 🤔 https://t.co/qZcZMNwz2g
Unfortunately, what @AndrisKulbergs said does not match the truth. The document on restricting immigration has been in the works since July 24. The Prime Minister supposedly is against immigration, but with emotional arguments stops @VL_TBLNNK's immigration restriction plan. https://t.co/FSIEC3EVKBhttps://t.co/8tYrfSWjFB
One can only guess why Andris Kulberg is slowing down the immigration restriction plan - he lobbies employers who want migrants or else envy towards NA (elections), but Kulberg is for immigrants. Thanks @janisdombrava for the work! We won't have a migrant paradise here, we simply don't need it! https://t.co/YVal7zUSs5
Not to mention @janisdombrava's plan, which I would gladly read, but it is not publicly available... Mr. Kulbergs talks about fighting illegal migration, but ignores the fact that the greatest threat is posed precisely by legal migration, against which, as it seems, no one plans to fight. That is just a smokescreen. Here is the 'Austošā Saule Latvijai' anti-migration plan - please, take and use it! https://t.co/6DySt75moh
❗️❗️❗️ @AndrisKulbergs and @LTRK_uznemeji and other employer associations! Stop opposing @janisdombrava's anti-immigration plan and hoping that Latvia's economy will be saved by cheap labor. 🇩🇪Germany's and 🇬🇧England's experience shows that the result is not an economic upswing but a social catastrophe. Better, together with diaspora organizations abroad, let's develop a proper plan to bring Latvians back home. It is also the responsibility of many employers, because they did not invest in their company but bought a Mercedes and paid employees under a thousand. That is also why people left. Andri Kulberg and @Edgars_T! @VARAM_Latvija is responsible for promoting reemigration. Why has it been forgotten? 🇱🇻 We must call our compatriots home, not import Uzbeks and Pakistanis! #ReemigrācijaNevisIslams
🎯 As the old master of politics @AivarsLembergs once publicly said: There are two diseases of politicians - vanity and arrogance. https://t.co/2tMpMSic5u
DAY No. 68 in the prime minister's chair — Dombrava's imitated MIGRANT struggle
@VL_TBLNNK hysteria about immigration sometimes looks like a spoiled kindergartener.
Here is everything you need to know about @janisdombrava's 'theater battle' with immigration. 🎭
Apparently Dombrava is not interested in a real result in restricting migration, but in loud and pointless shouting. It is a pity that their own voters are fooled in this way.
Interior Minister Dombrava apparently still has not understood what it means to be a minister and how work happens in the Cabinet of Ministers. I would suggest his more experienced NA colleagues — @KasparsGerhards, @IIndriksone or Mūrniece — explain what it means to prepare and submit an informative report (IZ) to the government.
❓ How do Dombrava and NA even imagine pushing a FULLY UNSYNCHRONIZED issue to a government meeting?
Just because they felt like it?
📸 The screenshot from the MK TAP portal shows everything as clear as day:
➡️ Dombrava's informative report was submitted on Monday, 31 August, at 12:59 — only about 1.5 hours before the coalition meeting;
➡️ the document is completely unsynchronized with 14 institutions — not with the Ministry of Justice, Finance, Economy, Foreign Affairs, Welfare, Environmental Protection and Regional Development, Health, the State Chancellery, @darbadeveji, @LTRK_uznemeji, etc.
Simply coming in, throwing a document into the government and then announcing that 'everyone is against fighting immigration' is dull, cheap and populist voter fishing with no basis.
🤝 At the coalition meeting we all agreed that the document must be coordinated, and this Friday a special political meeting is being organized to agree on its content point by point.
Apparently even that seems superfluous to Dombrava, if noise is more important than results.
⚠️ And the objections are not formal — they are very substantial.
For example, Dombrava suddenly imagined suing TWO European Commission commissioners and proposing amendments to an EU directive. The Foreign Ministry has significant objections to that.
The interior minister cannot simply bypass all Cabinet working procedures, throw a document unsynchronized with anyone into the government and demand an immediate decision. Many ministers had not even had time to familiarize themselves with the document today.
📌 Moreover, there is no talk of some 'stuck coordination'. There has not even been a normal coordination cycle!
The document must first be prepared properly, go through coordination and be brought to a government decision. Only then can one say that someone is blocking it.
Dombrava simply did not do his homework.
The facts are simple:
1️⃣ A project can be submitted to the government agenda if it is submitted by Wednesday evening. This project was already submitted on Monday, 31 August, at 12:59, shortly before the coalition meeting.
2️⃣ After clarifying the project, it was not sent to ministries for a repeated opinion.
3️⃣ The argument about delay does not hold up — the report has had almost three months since the beginning of June to be prepared.
🎯 If we really want to restrict illegal migration, we need results, prepared decisions and professional work, not loud slogans and political theater.
Unfortunately, what @AndrisKulbergs said is not true. The document on immigration restrictions has been in the works since July 24.
The Prime Minister supposedly is against immigration, but with emotional arguments stops the @VL_TBLNNK immigration restriction plan. https://t.co/FSIEC3EVKBhttps://t.co/8tYrfSWjFB
He lies and manipulates. He talks about illegal, but the main problem is legal migration, and here Kulberg's bosses have a desire to keep everything on a grand scale + 'golden visas' for Russian-speaking residents of Muslim countries. Also reported that these documents have not been coordinated by the AS and JL ministries since July! https://t.co/RUTWQdF4fU
@AndrisKulbergs@ArtursButans@Gircha@VL_TBLNNK Get involved in stopping migration. Order to stop issuing temporary and permanent residence permits. Stop the issued ones, deport legal migrants.
I thought you were an educated, wise, and knowledgeable Saeima deputy whom I respect, but now even some self-evident things need to be understood. A minister must be able to move his draft law through the Cabinet of Ministers. So far there has been absolutely no political discussion or raising of the problem by Dombrava, nor any involvement of other ministers. Yesterday I clearly placed a thematic Cabinet meeting where I offered to politically go through problematic issues with all ministers to coordinate them – do you want to claim that didn't happen? Or do you simply want to continue the kindergarten here? I am for working, I am for solutions, not cheap political theater at the level of a marginal opposition party.
One can only guess why Andris Kulbergs is slowing down the immigration restriction plan - he lobbies employers who want migrants or is envious of NA (elections), but Kulbergs is for immigrants. Thanks @janisdombrava for the work! We will not have an immigrant paradise here, we simply don't need it! https://t.co/YVal7zUSs5
Irš and manipulates. He talks about illegal, but the main problem is legal migration, and here Kulberg's masters want to keep everything in big ways + “golden visas” for Russian-speaking, residents of Muslim countries. It was also reported that as of July, the AS and JL ministries are not approving these documents! https://t.co/RUTWQdF4fU
@AndrisKulbergs@VL_TBLNNK@janisdombrava It is evident that Kulbergs himself is in hysterics; he didn't manage to coordinate with his masters. He actively pushes “golden visas” for dubious persons from Muslim and Russian-speaking countries, defends big capital's desire for a cheap migrant mass, and blocks initiatives because of the desire to preserve migration!