Most Afghan asylum seekers are not allowed to stay in Belgium, but they cannot return either: “I have nowhere else to go”
by atrocious_cleva82
Most Afghan asylum seekers are not allowed to stay in Belgium, but they cannot return either: “I have nowhere else to go”
by atrocious_cleva82
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>”Two years ago the Taliban came to my mother looking for my father and me,” he says. “We had already fled the country. To take revenge, they killed my 10-year-old brother.”
>The assessment of asylum applications in Belgium is very strict. “Family members of former soldiers do not receive asylum,” says his lawyer Oriane Todts, “but single women, human rights activists or people who worked for foreign organizations do, for example.” This strict policy is in stark contrast to most other European countries.
Nowhere else to go? There are plenty of countries to pick from
Recently there has been a lawyer who wrote an article about a client who killed himself after a negative decision was givven in his asylum request.
What the immigration office in Belgium is doing is killing our society. What will happen to people who cannot go anywhere and are not allowed to work? Poverty, illness, crime. Besides the human drama, we also pay for those things as a society. the alternative would be the reasonable thing, and give people papers so they can work and be a positive part of society.
Legaliseren zodat ze kunnen werken met gewoon een strengere intrede tot het sociale stelsel alstublieft.
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