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Andris Velps (@AndrisVelps)
Austošā Saule Latvijai · ASL valdes loceklis
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The only country where immigrants built prosperity was the USA. Europeans built a country to live in. The same, Danish data shows that migration worsens welfare and is an additional burden on the budget. Enough telling that it will be different for us. Not even mentioning the violence and crime that follow migrants.
As Prime Minister Kulbergs would say, the report is sh…, because I would even say anti-state. Why? Please - Indeed, the report provides a well-founded assessment of the load on state institutions and security risks at the EU external border, however the proposed restrictive framework contains significant economic and legal risks for Latvia's development! The introduction of general quantitative quotas and disproportionate burdens on study and work migration reduce the country's competitiveness, slow economic growth and contradict European Union law. Migration management consistent with the long-term interests of the national economy requires abandoning absolute numerical caps, replacing them with flexible, sector-demand-based monitoring and a 'green corridor' system for trusted employers. Upon receiving a temporary residence permit, this person will never receive a permanent residence permit, unless they have passed the state language exam and have lived in the country for at least 5 years continuously without violating the law. In higher education, it is essential to preserve university autonomy and export capacity, ensuring targeted quality supervision rather than introducing comprehensive proportion restrictions. To reduce the administrative burden in public administration, priority should be given to digital integration of institutions and automatic data exchange, avoiding resource-intensive in-person registration procedures. State security interests and economic development must work in synergy, ensuring sustainable and internationally competitive national growth, not the proposed 'Dombrava' variant – returning to moss village laws. That is my opinion.
❗️❗️❗️ @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
Kulbergs drags out Dombrava's migration plan, Rinkēvičs hurriedly promulgates the incomplete Migration Law, both support golden visas, and there is no talk even of increasing the investment sum (🇱🇻 as known, they are the cheapest)... what is happening, what don't we know? 🤔 https://t.co/qZcZMNwz2g
❗️First, the prime minister must be able to distinguish a draft law from an informative report.
Secondly, on the TAP portal everyone can see that the immigration restriction plan has been under coordination since 24 July.
I call on @AndrisKulbergs, instead of emotional reproaches, to no longer postpone immigration restrictions. https://t.co/hLpkgEfwB5
Prime Minister @AndrisKulbergs emphasizes that the government's political goal on migration has not changed. Latvia needs stricter migration control, limiting unjustified entry and stay of third-country nationals in Latvia. https://t.co/bythmg2a79
Nacionālā apvienība "Visu Latvijai!"-"Tēvzemei un Brīvībai/LNNK" · Žurnālists
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@AndrisKulbergs I have not been present in these conversations between you and Dombrava, so I don't know the nuances, but looking from the outside, there are no clear reasons why this needs to be publicly argued about.
@kr_klavins Ask this question to NA and Dombrava. If a colleague has decided to go into destructive action rather than resolve the issue in the very clearly given opportunity to meet this Friday and iron out the points not agreed with the ministers, then he deserves a public 'fuj'.
“Cheap, childish shouting of my coalition partners for the sake of shouting”… Prime Minister. Prime Minister of the Republic of Latvia. https://t.co/xZ7Ga3EPA3
To all shouters before shouting from headlines about migration, I suggest you read! The government's and my position has never changed regarding stopping uncontrolled migration. Illegal and "legally" migrants with fabricated papers have no place in Latvia. I am for deeds and action, not cheap, childish @VL_TBLNNK shouting for the sake of shouting. I expect from @janisdombrava a QUALITATIVELY prepared migration control document. I already yesterday scheduled a political ministers' meeting for Friday 12:00 to help sort it out with ministers. If Dombrava is not ready to simply prepare a document for consideration by the Council of Ministers, then he can only blame his own inability to be a good minister.
Nacionālā apvienība "Visu Latvijai!"-"Tēvzemei un Brīvībai/LNNK" · Žurnālists
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@AndrisKulbergs Andris, why do you need this? Against the closest political partner, with whom you worked together for years in opposition, fighting against the 'Progressives' and 'New Unity'.
To all shouters before shouting from headlines about migration, I suggest you read! The government's and my position has never changed regarding stopping uncontrolled migration. Illegal and "legally" migrants with fabricated papers have no place in Latvia. I am for deeds and action, not cheap, childish @VL_TBLNNK shouting for the sake of shouting. I expect from @janisdombrava a QUALITATIVELY prepared migration control document. I already yesterday scheduled a political ministers' meeting for Friday 12:00 to help sort it out with ministers. If Dombrava is not ready to simply prepare a document for consideration by the Council of Ministers, then he can only blame his own inability to be a good minister.
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.
So - the war between NA and Kulbergs has begun. Now NA blames things he's not even close to being involved in. Remind me, who created the incompetent Crisis Management Center, without giving it an office or phones? The cause of the storm's aftermath is all previous governments, including NA! https://t.co/JkIGrtuVVH
A new storm raised by Kulbergs to forget the previous one. On 22/08, storm aftermath management was AK's responsibility with the Crisis Management Center directly under him, who turned out to be 000. He even dared to say that this is not a real crisis. Good that @KEM_Latvija VS Līga K. took over crisis management.
@Lato_Lapsa@AndrisKulbergs I wouldn't say I'm surprised by the transformation itself, the chameleonism was visible when AS ended up in opposition, before that AK praised AB, then started criticizing, now again burning money. The first day Kulbergs became a light version of Siliņa was the 21st day video. Now - hopelessly.
Although since childhood I have been interested in science, popular astrophysics, all kinds of provable things, in recent months I have rapidly started to believe in guardian angels, a special mission and good karma, which threw me off the Saeima candidate list.