Let’s Not Go Dutch
Amnesty's track record in Europe should discourage American imitators.
by Paul Belien
America is not the only nation debating amnesty for illegal aliens. The issue is a hot topic across the Atlantic as well. On June 8, the Dutch Parliament approved a proposal submitted by Nebahat Albayrak, a Turkish-born member of the Dutch government, to give permanent resident cards to everyone who has been living in the Netherlands since 2001. Albayrak, the junior minister of Justice, who holds dual Dutch-Turkish citizenship, thinks that some 30,000 will benefit from her amnesty, though no one actually knows how many illegal immigrants are in the country.
If previous amnesties in other Western European countries are any indication, the Dutch may be in for a surprise. Two years ago, when Spain announced a collective amnesty for illegal immigrants, the government in Madrid expected that the measure would apply to 300,000 people at most; 800,000 showed up.
Belgium had a similar experience in January 2000, when it granted papers to everyone who had been living in the country illegally for the previous six years. Brussels thought there were 20,000 illegal aliens, but 50,000 applied for amnesty, providing documents, such as doctor’s prescriptions, to prove that they had been living in Belgium in 1994. In 1998, when the Italian government announced an amnesty for what was expected to be “fewer than 38,000” illegal immigrants, it had to hand out residence permits to a staggering 220,000.
Amnesties for illegal immigrants take place at regular intervals in Europe. Each time a government grants one, they invariably say that this will be the last and that from now on all illegal newcomers will be expelled. Of course that never happens.
Since 1974, Western Europe has given permanent resident cards to over 5 million illegal immigrants. France has granted three major amnesties in the past 25 years. Spain has offered six in the past 15 years. Italy voted amnesties in 1988, 1990, 1996, 1998, and 2002. Last year, it agreed on another one that allowed over 500,000 people to stay—a figure the government now wants to expand to 1 million. All these countries belong to the European Union, where there is free movement of persons. An amnesty in one country allows the formerly illegal immigrant to move to other EU member states as well.
The largest collective amnesties have been given in Spain, Italy, and Greece. These EU member states, directly bordering Africa and Asia along the Mediterranean, hope that once an illegal alien has obtained his residence permit he will leave for more affluent welfare states like Germany, Britain, or Scandinavia. The immigrants can legally emigrate to a Shangri-La elsewhere in Europe. And, indeed, most of them do.
In the Netherlands, however, the situation is different. The tulip kingdom by the North Sea is as close to paradise as a welfare seeker can get. Those who obtain permission to stay in Holland do not move on, as they have already tapped one of the richest welfare bonanzas on the continent. Hence the puzzling question: why have the Dutch, who had relatively strict immigration policies until the present government took over last February, suddenly decided to open the floodgates? One of the reasons is the role played by someone granted an American green card last year.
Dutch politics resemble a pendulum. From very liberal until the turn of the century, they swung dramatically to the right in the wake of the murders of Pim Fortuyn, a homosexual politician who favored immigration restriction, and Theo van Gogh, an anarchist moviemaker, in 2002 and 2004 respectively. In the resulting shock, the Dutch had to face the fact that many of their newly arrived neighbors were unwilling to accept Holland’s traditional liberal tolerance.
Consequently, the strict policies of Rita Verdonk, the minister for integration and immigration in the previous center-right government, initially drew almost unanimous support. “Nederland is vol” (The Netherlands are full), the Dutch said. “Iron Rita,” a former prison director and head of the state security services, aimed to discourage any non-European fortune seeker from entering, and for a while, the Netherlands had the most uncompromising immigration policies in Europe. Verdonk, a member of the center-right Dutch Liberal Party VVD, even expelled alleged asylum seekers who had already acquired permanent resident cards and sometimes even Dutch citizenship. She took their cards and their citizenship away if they had lied about their real identities or true reasons for entering the country. According to Verdonk, there was no place in Dutch society for people who cheated their way in.
Though Verdonk was reviled by political opponents as a far-right populist, she retained her party’s support until May of last year when it was discovered that Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the most famous Dutch politician at home and abroad and a member of Verdonk’s own VVD, was one of the cheaters who had lied their way into the Netherlands and Dutch citizenship.
Ali had come to the Netherlands in 1992 and had obtained political asylum because she claimed to have arrived directly from war-torn Somalia. In reality, although born in Somalia to a prominent, wealthy family, she had been living in Kenya and Germany for the previous 12 years. To disguise her real identity, she used a false name, calling herself Ali instead of Magan, her real name. She also gave the Dutch authorities a false date of birth.
While in the Netherlands, Magan, from then on known as Ali, studied politics. A few years later, she became a Dutch citizen. She gained a reputation as an outspoken critic of Islam and of religion in general and as an activist for women’s rights, including abortion. In 2003, she was elected a member of the Dutch Parliament. One year later, she became a global icon of resistance to Islamism when van Gogh was murdered by a Muslim fanatic who left death threats for her on his body. Van Gogh and Hirsi Ali had just finished making a movie entitled “Submission,” about discrimination against women in Muslim societies. They were planning a second movie, “Submission 2,” about the “Muslim intolerance towards homosexuals.”
For the liberal Dutch, and indeed for many elsewhere in the West, including Reader’s Digest, which elected her “European of the Year,” Ali became the Jeanne d’Arc of liberal secularism against Islamism. But when, in May of last year, Dutch television revealed that Magan aka Ali had given false information to enter the Netherlands, Minister Verdonk declared that the immigration rules applied to her as much as to others. Since Ali had committed “identity fraud,” she had not legitimately acquired Dutch citizenship, Verdonk argued. She moved to annul her citizenship, whereupon Ali resigned from Parliament. The pro-immigration but anti-Muslim politician announced that she was leaving for the United States to become a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
In the Netherlands, the sudden departure of the “European of the Year” brought a political backlash against Verdonk, who was blamed for chasing the “most famous and courageous Dutch citizen” away. When Iron Rita refused to resign, the government collapsed. The next general elections were won by the Left, which promised an amnesty for illegal aliens as well as for those who had been turned down by Verdonk.
The new Dutch government, a coalition of the Christian-Democrat Party and the Labor Party, is the first government in the Netherlands with immigrant ministers. In addition to Nebahat Albayrak, there is also Ahmed Aboutaleb, secretary of social affairs and employment, who holds dual Moroccan-Dutch citizenship. Both politicians belong to Labor, a party that caters for the immigrant vote.
Rita Verdonk, now marginalized even within her own party, has warned that Albayrak’s amnesty might attract up to half a million asylum seekers. But the government is not inclined to listen. Verdonk’s previous post has gone to Ella Vogelaar, another Labor member, who says that the Netherlands, so far a country of Judeo-Christian traditions, is gradually becoming a “Judeo-Christiano-Islamic” society, a process she considers beneficial. Wouter Bos, the Labor Party leader, who is the current Dutch minister of finance, recently said that he wants to turn the Netherlands into an international center of Sharia banking, next to Dubai and London.
Minister Albayrak told Parliament that the amnesty for everyone who has been living in the Netherlands since 2001 implies that illegal aliens who entered after 2001 have to be expelled. But she knows that this is not going to happen because the government needs the collaboration of the local authorities to track down illegal aliens. Many mayors, especially those belonging to Albayrak’s own Labor Party, have already announced that they will refuse to assist the government in their search for the immigrants.
Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht, The Hague, and Eindhoven—the five largest cities in the country—refuse to “organize manhunts on illegal immigrants.” Ernst Bakker, the mayor of Hilversum, the town where Fortuyn was murdered, told the Dutch press that providing the list of illegal aliens to the government amounts to “betrayal, informing.” It reminds him of “Nazi methods.”
Some Americans might be inclined to think that an amnesty for illegal immigrants who have already been living in the country for many years might be a good idea, on the condition that it be the final one. But the European experience teaches us that governments always underestimate the number of people who can apply for an amnesty, and that amnesties do not close floodgates, they open them.
E SE CRIASSEM ANTES CONDIÇÕES PARA QUE OS BRANCOS FOSSEM DESENVOLVER ÁFRICA?COMO POR EXEMPLO NO ZIMBABWE...
PERTENCE CERTAMENTE AO submundo da blogosfera DE ACORDO COM CIENTÍFICAS CLASSIFICAÇÕES DUNS GAJOS QUE VIVEM DOS MEUS IMPOSTOS E ANDAM A AFUNDAR PORTUGAL
Tuesday, September 4, 2007
O COCALERO ES INTERNACIONALISTA...
El gobierno de Morales promueve la despenalización de la coca al reivindicar sus valores culturales, tradicionales y medicinales, aunque la planta también es desviada para la fabricación de cocaína.
Morales, quien es aún presidente de las federaciones de cultivadores de coca del centro del país, anunció este año su intención de elevar los cultivos de esta hoja permitidos en Bolivia, de 12.000 a 20.000 hectáreas.
Morales, quien es aún presidente de las federaciones de cultivadores de coca del centro del país, anunció este año su intención de elevar los cultivos de esta hoja permitidos en Bolivia, de 12.000 a 20.000 hectáreas.
UM REFERENDO ACABOU COM AS MAGNANIMIDADES...
Racism fears as city school opens for black pupils only
David Sharrock, Ireland Correspondent
An emergency all-black school is to open in Dublin to cater for the children of African immigrants who have failed to secure places in the overloaded Irish education system.
Mary Hanafin, the Education Minister, said that the problems in the north Dublin suburb of Balbriggan reflected bad planning amid rapid population growth, not racist attitudes at existing schools. She vowed to get the new school integrated with white students as soon as possible.
“I would not like to see a situation developing where it is an all-black school, so it’s something to keep an eye on for next year’s enrolments,” Ms Hanafin said.
However, the head of the organisation providing the new school said that it was a concern because demand was coming from a specific sector of Ireland’s ethnic minority. “Almost all of the people applying appear to be of black skin and that is a worrying phenomenon,” said Paul Rowe, the chief executive of Educate Together, a charity that provides an alternative to faith-based education.
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Ninety-eight per cent of schools in the Republic of Ireland are religious institutions.
Mr Rowe said that Educate Together was asked to establish the emergency school by the Irish Government’s education department on August 27. Bracken Educate Together National School will open on September 17 with a principal and four classes catering for about 70 children.
A meeting in Balbriggan over the weekend for families who had failed to secure places for their children in Balbriggan’s schools was attended by parents mainly of African origin.
The parents said that they had tried to get their children into local schools but were told that all places had to be reserved by February. Almost all the children are Irish citizens.
But some questioned why white families who had moved into the town this year had managed to overcome the registration deadlines to get their children into schools.
Others complained that Ireland’s school system was discriminating against them on the basis of religion. The law permits schools run by the Roman Catholic Church to discriminate on the basis of whether a prospective student has a certificate confirming that they were baptised into the faith.
Some of the African applicants were Muslim, members of evangelical Protestant denominations or of no religious creed. But Ms Hanafin insisted that schools were doing their best and were not applying racist criteria. The crisis is a symptom of Ireland’s economic boom, where development of new housing has raced ahead of poorly planned infrastructure and services.
More than 25,000 Africans have settled in Ireland since the mid1990s. Most arrived as asylum-seekers and many took advantage of Ireland’s law – unique in Europe – of granting citizenship to parents of any Irish-born child. The provision ended after a referendum in 2004.
Mr Rowe said that this was the second school his charity was opening this month. In the other, in Lucan, another town in the Dublin commuter belt, there were also high numbers of children from ethnic minorities.
David Sharrock, Ireland Correspondent
An emergency all-black school is to open in Dublin to cater for the children of African immigrants who have failed to secure places in the overloaded Irish education system.
Mary Hanafin, the Education Minister, said that the problems in the north Dublin suburb of Balbriggan reflected bad planning amid rapid population growth, not racist attitudes at existing schools. She vowed to get the new school integrated with white students as soon as possible.
“I would not like to see a situation developing where it is an all-black school, so it’s something to keep an eye on for next year’s enrolments,” Ms Hanafin said.
However, the head of the organisation providing the new school said that it was a concern because demand was coming from a specific sector of Ireland’s ethnic minority. “Almost all of the people applying appear to be of black skin and that is a worrying phenomenon,” said Paul Rowe, the chief executive of Educate Together, a charity that provides an alternative to faith-based education.
Related Links
Parents must help to lure boys off streets
Faith schools to twin with other schools
Ninety-eight per cent of schools in the Republic of Ireland are religious institutions.
Mr Rowe said that Educate Together was asked to establish the emergency school by the Irish Government’s education department on August 27. Bracken Educate Together National School will open on September 17 with a principal and four classes catering for about 70 children.
A meeting in Balbriggan over the weekend for families who had failed to secure places for their children in Balbriggan’s schools was attended by parents mainly of African origin.
The parents said that they had tried to get their children into local schools but were told that all places had to be reserved by February. Almost all the children are Irish citizens.
But some questioned why white families who had moved into the town this year had managed to overcome the registration deadlines to get their children into schools.
Others complained that Ireland’s school system was discriminating against them on the basis of religion. The law permits schools run by the Roman Catholic Church to discriminate on the basis of whether a prospective student has a certificate confirming that they were baptised into the faith.
Some of the African applicants were Muslim, members of evangelical Protestant denominations or of no religious creed. But Ms Hanafin insisted that schools were doing their best and were not applying racist criteria. The crisis is a symptom of Ireland’s economic boom, where development of new housing has raced ahead of poorly planned infrastructure and services.
More than 25,000 Africans have settled in Ireland since the mid1990s. Most arrived as asylum-seekers and many took advantage of Ireland’s law – unique in Europe – of granting citizenship to parents of any Irish-born child. The provision ended after a referendum in 2004.
Mr Rowe said that this was the second school his charity was opening this month. In the other, in Lucan, another town in the Dublin commuter belt, there were also high numbers of children from ethnic minorities.
EL BOLIVARIANO ESBANJADOR
L'ÉQUILIBRE RÉGIONAL EN QUESTION
Outre la dérive autoritaire au Venezuela, le discours belliqueux de M. Chavez n'est guère rassurant pour ses voisins d'Amérique du Sud, d'autant qu'il s'accompagne d'un important programme de réarmement financé par les revenus du pétrole. On pourrait s'interroger sur la pertinence pour une guerre de guérilla des 24 avions Soukhoï Su-30MK achetés et des cinq sous-marins commandés à la Russie, sans oublier l'achat de 55 hélicoptères MI 26 T, MI-17V5 et MI 35M, de 100 000 fusils d'assaut kalachnikov AK 103-104 et de 5 000 fusils SVD (Snaiperskaya Vintovka Dragunova) destinés à armer des snipers. L'équipement dont disposeront les militaires vénézuéliens modifie l'équilibre régional et suscitera une réaction de leurs homologues sud-américains.
Alors que la plupart des forces armées de la région sont dans un état de sous-équipement notoire, à l'exception de la Colombie et du Chili, il serait sans doute prématuré de parler d'une course aux armements en Amérique latine. Pour les états-majors, les intentions ne comptent pas, seul entre en ligne de compte le potentiel des armes alignées par l'autre camp. Avec leur portée de 3 000 kilomètres, les Soukhoï ne menacent pas uniquement Miami, Bogotá, le canal de Panama ou Manaus, mais aussi, avec un ravitaillement en vol, Brasília et Mexico. Alliée des Etats-Unis, la Colombie est concernée au premier chef, même si Bogotá et Caracas entretiennent des relations cordiales qui favorisent des échanges fructueux. Les deux voisins s'accordent d'ailleurs à oublier leur vieux litige frontalier à propos du golfe du Venezuela.
Souci supplémentaire : les arsenaux de Caracas pourraient alimenter des trafics d'armes. Les kalachnikovs achetées dépassent les effectifs de l'armée de terre, et les dragunovs à vision nocturne, précis à 800 mètres de distance, supposent une qualification dont les militaires vénézuéliens sont dépourvus. Un expert vénézuélien, Orlando Ochoa Teran, se demande si M. Chavez ne songerait pas à recourir à l'Iran qui fabrique une variante de ce dragunov pour la formation de ses snipers.
OS ESQUERDISTAS PORTUGUESES QUE POR CÁ ANDAM HÁ MAIS DE 20 ANOS PARA SUBSTITUIR A ESPINGARDA DA GUERRA COLONIAL E "MODERNIZAM" AS FA´S COM SUCATA QUE OUTROS NÃO QUEREM AFINAL DEVEM SER FORRETAS POR NÃO ESTAREM NO SEU "AMBIENTE", ISTO É A CAMINHO DUMA DITADURA... POR ISSO ACHAM MELHOR GASTAR O DINHEIRINHO DOS CONTRIBUINTES COM OS DESERDADOS DO MUNDO...
Outre la dérive autoritaire au Venezuela, le discours belliqueux de M. Chavez n'est guère rassurant pour ses voisins d'Amérique du Sud, d'autant qu'il s'accompagne d'un important programme de réarmement financé par les revenus du pétrole. On pourrait s'interroger sur la pertinence pour une guerre de guérilla des 24 avions Soukhoï Su-30MK achetés et des cinq sous-marins commandés à la Russie, sans oublier l'achat de 55 hélicoptères MI 26 T, MI-17V5 et MI 35M, de 100 000 fusils d'assaut kalachnikov AK 103-104 et de 5 000 fusils SVD (Snaiperskaya Vintovka Dragunova) destinés à armer des snipers. L'équipement dont disposeront les militaires vénézuéliens modifie l'équilibre régional et suscitera une réaction de leurs homologues sud-américains.
Alors que la plupart des forces armées de la région sont dans un état de sous-équipement notoire, à l'exception de la Colombie et du Chili, il serait sans doute prématuré de parler d'une course aux armements en Amérique latine. Pour les états-majors, les intentions ne comptent pas, seul entre en ligne de compte le potentiel des armes alignées par l'autre camp. Avec leur portée de 3 000 kilomètres, les Soukhoï ne menacent pas uniquement Miami, Bogotá, le canal de Panama ou Manaus, mais aussi, avec un ravitaillement en vol, Brasília et Mexico. Alliée des Etats-Unis, la Colombie est concernée au premier chef, même si Bogotá et Caracas entretiennent des relations cordiales qui favorisent des échanges fructueux. Les deux voisins s'accordent d'ailleurs à oublier leur vieux litige frontalier à propos du golfe du Venezuela.
Souci supplémentaire : les arsenaux de Caracas pourraient alimenter des trafics d'armes. Les kalachnikovs achetées dépassent les effectifs de l'armée de terre, et les dragunovs à vision nocturne, précis à 800 mètres de distance, supposent une qualification dont les militaires vénézuéliens sont dépourvus. Un expert vénézuélien, Orlando Ochoa Teran, se demande si M. Chavez ne songerait pas à recourir à l'Iran qui fabrique une variante de ce dragunov pour la formation de ses snipers.
OS ESQUERDISTAS PORTUGUESES QUE POR CÁ ANDAM HÁ MAIS DE 20 ANOS PARA SUBSTITUIR A ESPINGARDA DA GUERRA COLONIAL E "MODERNIZAM" AS FA´S COM SUCATA QUE OUTROS NÃO QUEREM AFINAL DEVEM SER FORRETAS POR NÃO ESTAREM NO SEU "AMBIENTE", ISTO É A CAMINHO DUMA DITADURA... POR ISSO ACHAM MELHOR GASTAR O DINHEIRINHO DOS CONTRIBUINTES COM OS DESERDADOS DO MUNDO...
O CRAVINHO É UM DISCRIMINADOR RACIAL
Cravinho quer pôr portugueses a falar tétum
ESTE MULATO ARMADO EM SECRETÁRIO DE ESTADO QUER OS COOPERANTES A FALAR TÉTUM EM TIMOR.E ENTÃO CRIOULO, KIMBUNDO,ETC, ETC?
NADA DE FALTA DE AMBIÇÃO.DISTRIBUA.NÓS ESTAMOS CÁ PARA EMIGRAR E "REMETER" AS MASSAS NECESSÁRIAS ÀS SUAS VIAGENS E DISTRIBUIÇÕES...
ESTE MULATO ARMADO EM SECRETÁRIO DE ESTADO QUER OS COOPERANTES A FALAR TÉTUM EM TIMOR.E ENTÃO CRIOULO, KIMBUNDO,ETC, ETC?
NADA DE FALTA DE AMBIÇÃO.DISTRIBUA.NÓS ESTAMOS CÁ PARA EMIGRAR E "REMETER" AS MASSAS NECESSÁRIAS ÀS SUAS VIAGENS E DISTRIBUIÇÕES...
Monday, September 3, 2007
NÓS POR CÁ NACIONALIZAMOS E PRONTO!O GOVERNO DIZ QUE SÃO INSUBSTITUÍVEIS PARA O NOSSO ENREQUECIMENTO (LÁ PARA O 4º MILÉNIO...)
La policía podrá poner camisas de fuerza y cascos a los inmigrantes en las expulsiones
La medida del protocolo de seguridad busca evitar las autolesiones en los vuelos de repatriación
J. A. RODRÍGUEZ - Madrid - 03/09/2007
Vota Resultado 54 votos Comentarios - 156
Los sin papeles que sean expulsados en aviones podrán ser vestidos con camisas de fuerza y chichoneras para evitar que se autolesionen para impedir su repatriación. El Ministerio del Interior ha elaborado un protocolo de normas de seguridad para las repatriaciones, que regula qué pueden hacer o no los policías que custodian a los expulsados. No podrán, por ejemplo, drogarles ni hacer uso de medidas coercitivas que puedan comprometer "las funciones vitales del repatriado". El objetivo es evitar casos como el de Osamuyia Aikpitanhi, que en junio falleció maniatado y amordazado en un vuelo de repatriación.
El protocolo lleva meses elaborándose para unificar las dos directivas del Consejo de Europa y las normas españolas que hasta ahora se aplicaban. Los sindicatos policiales -muy críticos con las condiciones en que trabajan los agentes de la Unidad Central de Expulsiones y Repatriaciones (UCER)- han colaborado en la elaboración de la norma, que consideraron vital tras el caso Aikpitanhi, quien falleció amordazado tras resistirse violentamente a la expulsión en un vuelo comercial en el que se le devolvía a Nigeria escoltado por tres policías, dada su corpulencia.
La norma es cada vez más necesaria por el aumento del número de expulsiones. Este año han sido repatriados 4.630 sin papeles en 123 aviones fletados al efecto, mientras que 3.900 fueron devueltos en vuelos comerciales. En uno de estos últimos se produjo la muerte de Aikpitanhi, el único incidente "importante" ocurrido este año en este tipo de vuelos, según el Ministerio del Interior.
Según el protocolo, al que ha tenido acceso EL PAÍS, los extranjeros deberán embarcar con un informe médico, de forma que se conozca "cualquier circunstancia médica que pueda afectar a la expulsión". Si el jefe del dispositivo policial cree que el estado de salud de un inmigrante no garantiza "un traslado digno y seguro", podrá suspender la expulsión.
Los inmigrantes serán subidos al avión esposados con lazos, que se les podrán cortar a criterio de la policía. Eso sí, "los cinturones de seguridad de los repatriados se mantendrán atados durante toda la duración del vuelo", pero se les podrán desabrochar si quiere ir al baño, donde tendrá que ir escoltado. Antes de que se inicie el vuelo, se advertirá a los expulsados que el resistirse no va a suponer en ningún caso la cancelación del viaje.
Pero si deciden ponerse bravos (violentos en el argot policial) ya dentro del aparato, "podrán ser inmovilizados por medios que no pongan en peligro su integridad física ni comprometa sus funciones vitales", utilizando una fuerza "proporcional" a la resistencia y respetando "el honor y la dignidad" del extranjero.
¿Cómo? Pues con "cascos de autoprotección para los repatriados violentos, que impidan que se autolesionen" y con "cinturones y prendas inmovilizadoras autorizadas". El primer utensilio servirá a modo de chichonera, para evitar que el expulsado se dé cabezazos contra el avión (como hizo Aikpitanhi) y el segundo es una especie de camisa de fuerza que mantiene los brazos y las manos pegadas al cuerpo. El problema es que esta segunda prenda no está en las dotaciones al uso del Cuerpo Nacional de Policía, según indicaron fuentes del cuerpo.
En principio, una bronca a bordo no será motivo para cancelar el vuelo. Es más, en caso de que se produzca la asonada, el jefe del dispositivo (habrá un policía por cada expulsado más un retén antidisturbios en la trasera del avión y un médico), siempre en contacto con el comandante del aparato, "dirigirá las operaciones para restablecer el orden".
La medida del protocolo de seguridad busca evitar las autolesiones en los vuelos de repatriación
J. A. RODRÍGUEZ - Madrid - 03/09/2007
Vota Resultado 54 votos Comentarios - 156
Los sin papeles que sean expulsados en aviones podrán ser vestidos con camisas de fuerza y chichoneras para evitar que se autolesionen para impedir su repatriación. El Ministerio del Interior ha elaborado un protocolo de normas de seguridad para las repatriaciones, que regula qué pueden hacer o no los policías que custodian a los expulsados. No podrán, por ejemplo, drogarles ni hacer uso de medidas coercitivas que puedan comprometer "las funciones vitales del repatriado". El objetivo es evitar casos como el de Osamuyia Aikpitanhi, que en junio falleció maniatado y amordazado en un vuelo de repatriación.
El protocolo lleva meses elaborándose para unificar las dos directivas del Consejo de Europa y las normas españolas que hasta ahora se aplicaban. Los sindicatos policiales -muy críticos con las condiciones en que trabajan los agentes de la Unidad Central de Expulsiones y Repatriaciones (UCER)- han colaborado en la elaboración de la norma, que consideraron vital tras el caso Aikpitanhi, quien falleció amordazado tras resistirse violentamente a la expulsión en un vuelo comercial en el que se le devolvía a Nigeria escoltado por tres policías, dada su corpulencia.
La norma es cada vez más necesaria por el aumento del número de expulsiones. Este año han sido repatriados 4.630 sin papeles en 123 aviones fletados al efecto, mientras que 3.900 fueron devueltos en vuelos comerciales. En uno de estos últimos se produjo la muerte de Aikpitanhi, el único incidente "importante" ocurrido este año en este tipo de vuelos, según el Ministerio del Interior.
Según el protocolo, al que ha tenido acceso EL PAÍS, los extranjeros deberán embarcar con un informe médico, de forma que se conozca "cualquier circunstancia médica que pueda afectar a la expulsión". Si el jefe del dispositivo policial cree que el estado de salud de un inmigrante no garantiza "un traslado digno y seguro", podrá suspender la expulsión.
Los inmigrantes serán subidos al avión esposados con lazos, que se les podrán cortar a criterio de la policía. Eso sí, "los cinturones de seguridad de los repatriados se mantendrán atados durante toda la duración del vuelo", pero se les podrán desabrochar si quiere ir al baño, donde tendrá que ir escoltado. Antes de que se inicie el vuelo, se advertirá a los expulsados que el resistirse no va a suponer en ningún caso la cancelación del viaje.
Pero si deciden ponerse bravos (violentos en el argot policial) ya dentro del aparato, "podrán ser inmovilizados por medios que no pongan en peligro su integridad física ni comprometa sus funciones vitales", utilizando una fuerza "proporcional" a la resistencia y respetando "el honor y la dignidad" del extranjero.
¿Cómo? Pues con "cascos de autoprotección para los repatriados violentos, que impidan que se autolesionen" y con "cinturones y prendas inmovilizadoras autorizadas". El primer utensilio servirá a modo de chichonera, para evitar que el expulsado se dé cabezazos contra el avión (como hizo Aikpitanhi) y el segundo es una especie de camisa de fuerza que mantiene los brazos y las manos pegadas al cuerpo. El problema es que esta segunda prenda no está en las dotaciones al uso del Cuerpo Nacional de Policía, según indicaron fuentes del cuerpo.
En principio, una bronca a bordo no será motivo para cancelar el vuelo. Es más, en caso de que se produzca la asonada, el jefe del dispositivo (habrá un policía por cada expulsado más un retén antidisturbios en la trasera del avión y un médico), siempre en contacto con el comandante del aparato, "dirigirá las operaciones para restablecer el orden".
Sunday, September 2, 2007
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