Following the Danish government’s announcement of tighter rules, “a Facebook group for Danes helping asylum seekers with their everyday lives attracted thousands of new members and became a forum for people willing to drive refugees to Sweden, which has more generous asylum rules.
“Nynne, a 44-year-old woman from an affluent part of Copenhagen, said that although she had never considered herself an activist, she got into her car and drove to Lolland, a rural part of Denmark where many refugees arrive on ferries, because she ‘wanted to do something.’
“After unsuccessfully scouring the pitch dark roads, postings to the Facebook group eventually guided her to three Iraqi Kurds who wanted to go north of the border.
“To avoid unwanted attention, the three spent the night in her apartment until the border crossing was busier.”
http://www.thelocal.dk/20150916/denmark-sticks-to-hardline-refugee-stance-amid-crisis
(Because, of course, not everyone is lucky enough to be born Nordic, and affluent Danes should do their part in making sure more Syrians and Kurds and etc. make it to Sweden.)
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