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Waiting game stressful for asylum seekers

Published on : 26 April 2011 - 7:00am | By Eric Beauchemin (Screenshot: Nieuwsuur)
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The Dutch parliament is holding a debate this week on the country’s often lengthy asylum procedures.

According to the Dutch Immigration and Naturalisation Service, half of all asylum requests are dealt with within eight days. But some asylum seekers wait up to ten years before they find out whether they can stay in the Netherlands or not.

In two recent cases, this long wait had dramatic consequences. At the beginning of the month, a failed Iranian asylum seeker set himself on fire in Dam Square in Amsterdam. And a week ago, a failed African asylum seeker shot dead his girlfriend and a police officer.

The key moral question before parliament this week: can the Netherlands deport asylum seekers after so many years?

 

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Licetriemroro 26 April 2011 - 9:31pm / Germany

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Hiram1 26 April 2011 - 5:37pm

"In two recent cases, this long wait had dramatic consequences. At the beginning of the month, a failed Iranian asylum seeker set himself on fire in Dam Square in Amsterdam. And a week ago, a failed African asylum seeker shot dead his girlfriend and a police officer."...Did the Iranian, asylum seeker set himself on fire because of the "long wait" in the asylum process or did he do it because of mental-health problems? How many asylum seekers, who have been rejected, commit suicide by fire or any other means because of the long process? How many asylum seekers, who have been rejected, go out and murder a police officer and his girl friend because of an asylum rejection? Did this person also kill himself? No or yes? Why does the report say "it was said" he became psychotic because of the process? Who said it? How did that person come to the conclusion? "If" he was psychotic, his psychosis was latent and already present before he arrivedin the Netherlands. In both cases, the asylum process may have played a part in the two men acting out their psychosis but not the primary cause. If they were psychotic, they already had the psychosis. For this reason, the government should not be too quick to allow asylum seekers into the country. By allowing vast numbers of asylum seekers into the country, you endanger the safety of the Dutch citizens. How many thosusand of people with psychosis have you allowed into the contry, already? How many more innocent police officers and citizens have to die by the hands of psychotic people seeking asylum? You know nothing about the people you let inside your country. This article showed you let in one murder of two innocent humans and one person with severe mental health problems!

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