Former Danish Immigration Minister faces jail time for “separating” couples

Former Danish Immigration Minister Inger Stoejberg faces jail time for “separating” asylum-seeking couples in 2016.

Denmark’s Supreme Court Judges ruled that Stoejberg’s 2016 decision to separate couples was illegal. She will now spend 60 days in jail.

Inger Stoejberg was shocked by the ruling as according to her, the policy was made to stop child marriages.

Stoejberg told reporters that it’s Danish values that lost and not just her. She had enforced strict policies to combat illegal migrant crossings that some online dub as “migrant blackmail.”

She brought the landmark law that prohibited authorities from keeping married couples under the age of 18 together. The policy was dropped just months after its enforcement, and it had separated over 20 couples before being scrapped.

Some male migrants in their middle to late 20s from the Middle East have underaged wives. Countless such cases led Stoejberg to draft the policy that did not accept them as couples.

Stoejberg’s long impeachment trial is number six in Denmark’s history, and her conviction has probably banned her forever from running for political office.

She cannot appeal against the ruling and is set to spend the next 60 days in jail.

Stoejberg has been an independent Member of Parliament since her Party voted to impeach her. She is on the verge of losing her seat as other Members of Parliament will now vote to remove her from the Legislature.

Leftist Members of Parliament have welcomed the Supreme Court’s decision, while Stoejberg’s has been left in shock for trying to protect children from falling into predatory hands before landing in Denmark.

The other side of the Danish Parliament has also been left unsettled by the verdict that has now set a precedent which encourages male migrants to marry children.