By Sam Howard
Danish Parliament moved ahead Thursday on a plan to house certain migrants on Lindholm Island, shown here. Photo courtesy Erik Christensen/Wikimedia Commons
(UPI) -- Denmark Parliament voted Thursday to move forward with a plan to house migrant criminals on a small island south of Copenhagen.
Lindholm Island, currently home to an animal disease research center, will be able to house up to 125 migrants on its roughly 17 acres of land. The nation's parliament, the Folketing, voted Thursday to approve funding for the project, The New York Times reported.
Those housed on the small island may include rejected asylum seekers with criminal convictions and foreign residents Denmark doesn't have legal approval to deport.
Euronews reported that officials chose Lindholm because of its remote location. Danish Minister for Immigration, Integration and Housing Inger Støjberg said a ferry sailing to the island will operate "as infrequently as possible."
Danish Finance Minister Kristian Jensen has cautioned that foreigners sent to the island will not be considered prisoners, but will be imprisoned if they don't sleep on the island and report to authorities each day.
Converting the island's facilities so they can house migrants may cost least $115 million, according to a previous Times report. Danish officials hope to open the island to migrants in 2021.
2021 - that gives them lots of time to wreak havoc. But, at least it's an attempt to segregate some of the dangerous Muslims from society, as I suggested is necessary for European countries.
Good for Denmark!
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