Natural Justice
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poliphiloI understand there have recently been changes in immigration law that strengthen the rights of children in asylum cases. Odi and Peter's lawyer will be using these to continue pressing their case with the Home Office.
Fabi greets us these days as "nanna" and "grandpa". The better he is bonded to us- and the society he is growing up in- the more compelling is the case that he should stay. When we saw him yesterday we were trying to teach him to say, "I am an English boy". He's getting very quick at picking up words. He didn't grasp the whole sentence- it is perhaps a little too abstract for him- but he managed a garbled version of "English".
I think it's a travesty of natural justice that a child should be expelled from the country in which he/she was born.
Fabi greets us these days as "nanna" and "grandpa". The better he is bonded to us- and the society he is growing up in- the more compelling is the case that he should stay. When we saw him yesterday we were trying to teach him to say, "I am an English boy". He's getting very quick at picking up words. He didn't grasp the whole sentence- it is perhaps a little too abstract for him- but he managed a garbled version of "English".
I think it's a travesty of natural justice that a child should be expelled from the country in which he/she was born.
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Date: 2011-04-12 06:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-04-13 10:27 am (UTC)This has become a hot topic in certain circles, here in the US. Since Obama was elected president, many, many 'conservatives' in this country have maintained that, not only should he not have been elected, it was actually illegal for him to become president, since in their opinion he is not really a natural US citizen. The opinion splits into two camps of factually challenged lunatics: those that argue that Obama's claim of being born on US soil is fraudulent and those that essentially deny the 14th amendment, the one that abolished slavery and made native-born African Americans US citizens.
The punchline is that both camps claim, publicly at least, that their belief has nothing whatsoever to do with the fact that the president is black.