October 19, 2009

Human Rights Ignored in US Deportation Hearings

What happens when human rights are taken into consideration in deportation hearings – an example from Britain:

Immigration judges in the United Kingdom ruled that sending a Bolivian asylum seeker back home would breach his human rights by interfering with his family life. The reason? He and his girlfriend had adopted a pet cat. Read the story here.

What happens when human rights are simply not part of the equation in deportation hearings – an example from the US:

At around the same time, in the US, an Iraqi couple seeking asylum in the US was ordered deported, despite having US citizen children – one of whom has hemophilia. In Baghdad, this boy is unlikely to get the proper treatment. Read the story here.

This is beyond ironic.

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