Rights of the illegal immigrant

[The Stranger]

According to Amnesty International the Netherlands violate the rights of the illegal immigrant in the way they deal with illegal immigrants.

*They usually lock up illegal immigrants immediatly, while it is supposed to be an ultimate remedy if everything else fails.
*The places where they are locked up in are often far worse than prison cells and the duration for which the illegal immigrants are locked up far exceeds that of most other countries (100 days vs a common 45-30 days).
*The medical care and legal protection are far under the standard. Complaints from illegal immigrants about abusive guards are barely looked into, lawyers more and more decline to defend an illegal immigrant because the state has decreased the funding.
*Many illegal immigrants (including people on hunger strike) are locked up in isolation cells and this is against article 13 of the human rights treaty: forbidding inhumane and humiliating treatment.
*Amnesty also states that many vulnarable people are locked up, including children, victims of torture and human smuggle, pregnant women (an incident took place where are pregnant woman was send to the hospital in chains to give birth to her child), sick and elderly people.

some other "facts" include:

*yearly the dutch taxpayer pays 92,7 million euros for the dealing of this "problem". According to amnesty with the use of alternatives such as a bail or a notification obligation, about 70 million euros could be saved


http://www.volkskrant.nl/vk/nl/2686/...ugt-niet.dhtml