On 13 December that year, she was convicted of separating asylum seeker families in which at least one spouse was under 18, and sentenced to 60 days in prison.

In 1999, she graduated with a degree in communications management from the (now defunct) InformationsAkademiet and joined Viborg Bladet newspaper as a trainee reporter before becoming an editor for the paper in 2001.

In the opposition, Støjberg became one of the leading public voices of her party and occupied from 2014 to the electoral victory in 2015 the post of spokesperson for Venstre.

[8] Venstre had previously supported impeaching Støjberg, following the 2016 instruction from her ministry to separate couples in refugee centres.

[13] Moreover, particularly in the Anglophone sphere, the "Jewelry law", which was introduced under Støjberg, and which decreed that asylum seekers already at the border give up a part of their valuables as a pledge for later service costs was critically reported on,[14] in connection to which comparisons to Nazism were also made by commentators.[who?

[16] Støjberg was directly involved in a controversial application of the Aliens Act being used to criminalize non-Danish professors who spoke or wrote publicly, being interpreted as a violation of their work visas.

"[18][19] Støjberg cited bus drivers as an example of workers whose performance could be negatively affected by abstaining from food and drink.

Arriva, which runs a number of bus routes in Denmark, reported that it had never had any accidents involving drivers who were fasting.

The decree was illegal, and violated the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and Støjberg lied about it in Folketinget, the Danish parliament.

[27][28] Støjberg is formally accused of unlawful misconduct and maladministration of office, pursuant to the Minister Accountability Act and the European Convention on Human Rights (Article 8),[29] by illegally separating couples in refugee centres, where one or both persons were minors, some of them with children.

[32] In 2006, she married the long-time editor of Berlingske Jesper Beinov, who since 2016 is employed as a consultant of the Danish Ministry of Finance.