Posted on 04/11/2016 9:27:57 PM PDT by TroutStalker
COPENHAGEN — Lise Ramslog was out for a barefoot amble on the warm day last September that Europe’s refugee crisis came to her remote village in southern Denmark.
The 70-year-old grandmother had planned a simple stroll. What she found in her quiet, coastal community were hundreds of exhausted asylum seekers who had arrived on the ferry from Germany only to be stranded without access to public transportation. Some had begun to walk along the highway in desperation.
Ramslog decided on the spot that she would help: She ended up giving two young couples, a small child and a newborn baby a 120-mile ride in her cramped sedan to their destination in Sweden. “When we crossed the border, they rejoiced and cried,” she recalled.
In another context, Ramslog might be known as a good Samaritan.
But the Danish government has a different term for her: convicted human smuggler. How Europe is punishing migrants View Graphic
The decision by authorities to prosecute Ramslog — and to charge hundreds of other Danish citizens with a similar crime — is to many here just the latest evidence of a society that, when faced with an unparalleled influx of migrants and refugees, has taken a nasty turn.
In that respect, Denmark has company: Across Europe, a once-tender embrace of those fleeing conflicts on the continent’s doorstep has evolved into an uncompromising rejection.
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Good. Prosecute the hell out of her.
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For getting two Muslims out of her country? If every Dane did that...
Nations without borders aren’t nations.
Funny how raping and robbing the locals tends to wear out your welcome in a hurry, eh?
I second and third your motion. It’s just got to stop. There AND here.
Hadn’t thought about it that way.
The author of this piece assumes that all migrants are refugees and takes secondhand accounts of their sad stories at face value.
It appears that she just shifted the problem to someone else. If she had any character she would have adopted and supported them herself. It’s easy to spend other people’s money, at least until it runs out. Will she be legally an accessory to any crimes that they commit?
Unfortunately she is probably just another dumb “emotion freak” that can’t leave the half froze viper alone.
Should read: take an active stand on self preservation.
That was what I read as well. The woman should be welcomed as a hero.
Best thing, that would really annoy her.
It’s not Denmark or the Danes who have taken a nasty turn. It’s the refugees who have done that.
Typical lamestream dinosaur media reporting.
assuming the author even spoke with the refugees- at least as likely made up the stories
Actually more likely a different "journalist" made up the story and this one is just repeating it.
I remember when, here in this country, you could sponsor an immigrant family by guaranteeing them a job, etc. That way innocent taxpayers weren’t on the hook. Nowadays, innocent taxpayers and citizens are on the hook for everything.
A country can chose to (attempt to) be a “social welfare utopia”; or it can chose to have open borders. It can’t have both.
The U.S. immigration service still accepts affidavits of support when a person sponsors an immigrant. At least they did in 2010. It lasts roughly until the immigrant accomplishes ten years of self-support.
Of course, if the government is the sponsor, then you and I are on the hook, whether we choose to be or not.
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