"To anyone following Danish family reunification cases over the past couple of years, the fact that the government planned to forcibly separate a seven-year-old from her mother, sister and step-father and send her halfway across the world, where she has no-one to care for her, was not shocking. No, the shocking part was that it was the new, left-of-centre government that was doing it. When the Socialdemokraterne-Radikale-Socialistisk Folkeparti (SRSF) coalition assumed power in early October, they promised a clean break from the inflexible immigration policies of their predecessors, the Venstre-Konservative (VK) government and its right-wing ally, Dansk Folkeparti (DF). DF is generally credited with authoring Denmark’s existing immigration rules, although VK did the implementing." (Quoted from article)