Stop Deportation of 26000 asylum seekers from Netherlands
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The bill affects all asylum seekers who arrived in the country before April 2001. They include Iraqis, Afghans, Somalis, Iranian and Chechens who facing civil wars and reactionary and suppressions regimes, or a return to regions with no functioning government. Many of those affected have been in the country for more than five years and have had children who have been raised within Dutch communities. Some have spent up to 10 years applying for residence, and consider themselves Dutch.
All those who arrived before April 2001, and whose asylum applications have been rejected, are to be offered plane tickets and given eight weeks to leave the country.
If asylum seekers refuse, they will be rounded up by immigration officers, supported by armed police if necessary, and taken to a departure centre. Here, for up to another eight weeks, they will come under pressure from lawyers and civil servants to leave voluntarily. The government has already opened deportation centers for the detention of families. If they still refuse to leave the country, they face a six-month prison sentence.
Dutch deportation plan if come to the force will fundamentally undermine refugee rights. It discriminates against people's gender, race, country of origin, income, health, and above all, class. It is a full-fledged offensive against the humanity. Refugees and asylum seekers are not marginal groups that one should feel pity for. They are not minorities. They are human beings and part of the society. Their rights are human rights. An attack on their rights must be conceived as an offensive against humanity.
We demand that the Dutch Parliament and governemt must:
1- Stop all deportations
2- Review rejected case files,
3- Recognize the undeniable right to protection for all asylum seekers.
Sincerely,
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