Advertiser Eriks Stendzenieks spoke sharply about immigration and stated that Latvia should be particularly cautious. According to him, the country needs not mass but "quality" immigration — with high added value and very strict rules.
Commenting on immigration issues during the TV24 program "Preses klubs," advertising specialist Eriks Stendzenieks took a firm stance, stating that caution towards Islamic culture, in his opinion, is justified.
"No, I am against it! Because the cultures that come from the Islamic region are very aggressive, very contagious," he said.
Left liberals, according to Stendzenieks, often say: how did they accept Latvian refugees after World War II?
He noted that he does not remember Latvian refugees, for example, in Germany demanding to adopt their customs, forcing everyone to speak Latgalian or Latvian, or to build their pagan churches or settlements.
Stendzenieks believes that the European experience serves as a serious warning and that many countries already have very bad experiences from which conclusions should be drawn.
"We see what is happening in Sweden, Germany — there, SUVs drive into Christmas markets, something explodes, collapses, and people are cut and raped left and right," he stated.
In his opinion, Latvia's only luck so far has been the country's slowness: "Sometimes there is this blessed Latvian slowness — we are slow, and we haven't really started yet while in other places it is already ending. Well, thank God!"
Speaking about the workforce, Stendzenieks urged to look towards Lithuania, which after the Belarusian revolution attracted high-value programmers with salaries above 10,000 euros. "This is quality immigration. For Latvia, it would mean an orderly tax and banking policy so that a person could even open an account. But this must go hand in hand with very strict rules: one step to the right, one step to the left — deportation," he said.
