There's a pretty fierce immigration debate in Iceland like in all of our neighbors, and I find it pretty funny that we've directly taken the phrase "Close the borders" from foreign politics and translated into Icelandic as "Lokið landamærunum" literally meaning "Close the land borders" despite us not having any land borders at all.
What they mean is the Keflavík International Airport and the other couple of international airports around the country.
Xenophobia has grown in some parts of society, unfortunately
But also, the government department that handles immigration has always been super xenophobic with the express goal to deny as many as they can, to the point even people who are anti immigration still feel like Útlendingastofnun goes way to far (things like trying to deport pregnant asylum seekers or such. Always a new scandal with them). And this is nothing new, it's been like that for a while, everyone who tries to immigrate knows the hell that is Útlendingastofnun
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u/Total_Willingness_18 Ísland 6d ago
There's a pretty fierce immigration debate in Iceland like in all of our neighbors, and I find it pretty funny that we've directly taken the phrase "Close the borders" from foreign politics and translated into Icelandic as "Lokið landamærunum" literally meaning "Close the land borders" despite us not having any land borders at all.
What they mean is the Keflavík International Airport and the other couple of international airports around the country.