Post by rmarks1 on Aug 7, 2019 20:33:32 GMT -5
No. Not really. Not unless you think that begging on the streets is better than being in a holding facility where you are at least fed.
Bob
Across the European Union, according to official data, hundreds of thousands of migrants are being rejected in their bids for protection. But, for a range of knotty logistical and geopolitical reasons, the migrants handed orders to leave are overwhelmingly not being sent home.
Most rejected migrants tend to fall into a legal no man’s land — one where they have no right to housing, no work permits and scant opportunity to go elsewhere. The only option for many is to remain where they are and scrape by furtively.
Undocumented migrants sometimes wind up in Italy’s agricultural south, working grueling jobs in tomato fields. They do small-time, under-the-table construction work. They hawk trinkets at tourist sites in Rome and Milan. They work in the vineyards here in northeastern Italy, trimming leaves, harvesting grapes, earning 5 or 6 euros per hour.
And in a sense, those are the lucky ones.
Some rejected migrants have lost their homes and live in rickety squatters’ camps. Peter Okoyomon, a Nigerian who lost his asylum case last year, said that on days he is not called to the vineyards, he takes a bus to a neighboring town where he won’t be recognized, stands in front of a supermarket and begs for coins. “People don’t see tears on my face, but I do cry inside,” said Okoyomon, who crossed the Mediterranean in 2014...
European leaders estimate that they will ultimately reject more than 1 million people who arrived during the migration surge and sought asylum. Migrants can also receive orders to leave if they never apply for asylum or if they abandon their claims in the middle of the process. But no country has carried out deportations efficiently, particularly to countries in Africa and the Middle East.
European heads of government agreed last year that regular deportations send “a strong signal against undertaking dangerous irregular journeys to the E.U. in the first place.” In June, Germany, which has rejected more than 400,000 asylum seekers over the past five years, passed a law aimed at what its interior minister called “faster, more efficient” deportations.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/denied-asylum-but-not-deported-migrants-in-europe-live-in-limbo/2019/08/07/1b9f3082-a4ad-11e9-a767-d7ab84aef3e9_story.html
Most rejected migrants tend to fall into a legal no man’s land — one where they have no right to housing, no work permits and scant opportunity to go elsewhere. The only option for many is to remain where they are and scrape by furtively.
Undocumented migrants sometimes wind up in Italy’s agricultural south, working grueling jobs in tomato fields. They do small-time, under-the-table construction work. They hawk trinkets at tourist sites in Rome and Milan. They work in the vineyards here in northeastern Italy, trimming leaves, harvesting grapes, earning 5 or 6 euros per hour.
And in a sense, those are the lucky ones.
Some rejected migrants have lost their homes and live in rickety squatters’ camps. Peter Okoyomon, a Nigerian who lost his asylum case last year, said that on days he is not called to the vineyards, he takes a bus to a neighboring town where he won’t be recognized, stands in front of a supermarket and begs for coins. “People don’t see tears on my face, but I do cry inside,” said Okoyomon, who crossed the Mediterranean in 2014...
European leaders estimate that they will ultimately reject more than 1 million people who arrived during the migration surge and sought asylum. Migrants can also receive orders to leave if they never apply for asylum or if they abandon their claims in the middle of the process. But no country has carried out deportations efficiently, particularly to countries in Africa and the Middle East.
European heads of government agreed last year that regular deportations send “a strong signal against undertaking dangerous irregular journeys to the E.U. in the first place.” In June, Germany, which has rejected more than 400,000 asylum seekers over the past five years, passed a law aimed at what its interior minister called “faster, more efficient” deportations.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/denied-asylum-but-not-deported-migrants-in-europe-live-in-limbo/2019/08/07/1b9f3082-a4ad-11e9-a767-d7ab84aef3e9_story.html
Bob