How Danish Citizen Groups Are Pushing Back Against Harsh New Anti-Immigrant Laws

COPENHAGEN, Denmark -- On a sunny September afternoon last year, the Danish consultant and writer Lisbeth Zornig witnessed something she had never seen before. Hundreds of refugees carrying kids and a few belongings were walking on the Danish highway on their way to Sweden, Zornig told me. She swung her car to the side of the road, opened the door to a Syrian family with two 5-year-old twin girls and, with her husband, helped them reach their relatives in Sweden.

That September day, Zornig embarked on a new route: Illegal activism to help refugees and oppose the Danish government's strict asylum laws. And hundreds of thousands of Danes from students and doctors to public employees and policemen have followed her example in a fresh uprising tearing this Nordic kingdom apart.

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