(Free Beacon) In 1992, the Danish Parliament passed a special law granting asylum to 321 Palestinian refugees from Lebanon who were living in the country illegally. Twenty-five years later, a Danish minister, Martin Henriksen, asked a parliamentary committee to examine how they had fared in their new home.
As controversy erupts over the State Department’s decision to temporarily suspend visas for Gazans visiting the United States, an instructive report produced by that parliamentary committee has been making the rounds on social media.
The committee’s report cast doubt on the wisdom of the decision to take in those refugees, noting that 67 of the 321 had received prison sentences of some kind, while 137 were subject to legal fines larger than $200. That is, more than 60 percent carried criminal records.
