Asylum seekers' protest camp grows

[The Lawspeaker]

Asylum seekers' protest camp grows

A campsite in the province of Groningen inhabited by rejected asylum seekers continues to grow as more people join the protest.

Around 300 asylum seekers are living in tents in Ter Apel. The group has gathered to protest their impending deportations; a spokesperson for the applicants said he expects the camp to continue to grow.

Earlier in the week, the expansion of the camp led to shortages of water, tents and blankets. A number of relief organisations stepped in to help while the Ministry of the Interior and the local municipality provided toilets, trash cans and drinking water.

The camp was founded by a group of Iraqi asylum seekers who will be sent back to Iraq despite their claims that it's unsafe for them to return home. Since then, asylum seekers from Somalia and Iran have joined them.

Immigration Minister Gerd Leers has given the protesters a week to consider their options, in the hope that they will voluntarily return to their own countries. The protesters have rejected the offer.


Source: Radio Netherlands (http://www.rnw.nl/english/bulletin/asylum-seekers-protest-camp-grows) (18 May 2012)

[StonyArabia]

They should be send to the U.S since it's their responsiblity. The U.S attacked Iraq which was well of and improving through various ways the U.S crippled it until now which made it into mayhem before the war there was almost no Iraqi refugees or immigrants, when the war occurred this what happened. America should clean the mess and be held responsible.

[The Lawspeaker]

I think that they have a right to protest and I hope that all of them will assemble themselves there in that camp because our police has a right.. no the duty to kick them out of the country and with all that scum in one place that shouldn't be so difficult anymore. :thumb001:

Talk about a voluntary concentration camp.