Asylum seekers who are rejected and are then deported become non-persons. The deporting country does not really care what happens to them and just want them out of the country. The “receiving” country does not really much care about someone who does not want to be in the country and usually either arrest them (if they are wanted) or leave them to their own resources. Often they are killed shortly after being deported.
Many countries use force or drugs or both to ensure that the person can be deported. Recently a case of a deportee killed in Sweden while being deported to Iraq was reported. It was not the first case of a death during deportation. Such cases don’t get much publicity. Deportees are truly non-persons, citizens of nowhere, shunned at one end and unwanted at the other. And after all, “Who cares?”
But it does seem to happen fairly regularly.
Man died during deportation at Arlanda
Police investigate as man dies while being deported from UK
Algerian immigrant killed by French police while being deported
Nigerian, Murdered by Spain, Does Anyone Care?
Deported from Japan: until death do us part
Deported From U.S., Honduran Immigrants Return To Death And Terror
LESBIAN DIES AFTER BEING DEPORTED BY UNITED KINGDOM BACK TO UGANDA
When Deportation Is A Death Sentence
And, I find, I do care. But not enough to do very much about it.
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