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Swiss voters approve foreigner deportation plan

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press

2010 The Associated Press

Nov. 28, 2010, 2:59PM

GENEVA — Swiss voters on Sunday approved a plan to automatically deport foreigners who commit serious crimes or benefit fraud, in a significant victory for the nationalist party that pushed the proposal against the will of the government.

Some 52.9 percent of voters backed the proposal put forward by the nationalist Swiss People's Party. The plan was opposed by 47.1 percent of voters.

A government-backed counterproposal failed. It would have required case-by-case review by a judge before an individual was deported.

The government will now have to draft a law requiring automatic expulsion of foreigners found guilty of crimes such as murder, rape, drug dealing or benefit fraud.

"The majority of voters have sent a clear signal that they consider foreign criminality to be a serious problem," Justice Minister Simonetta Sommaruga said in a statement. "The Federal Council respects the will of the people and will set to work on putting the task confided in it into practice."

Under Switzerland's unique political system, any group wanting to change the law can collect 100,000 signatures to force a referendum. Last year the country drew international condemnation after voters defied a government recommendation and approved a law to ban the construction of minarets.

Concern about a perceived rise in crime led a majority of voters to approve the deportation plan in Sunday's referendum.

"I'm totally for it," said Emma Link after casting her vote in Geneva. The 86-year-old said she had recently been robbed on her way home from a nearby store.

But legal experts say the law could breach offenders' human rights.

Marcelo Kohen, a professor of international law at the Graduate Institute in Geneva, said people who had lived all their life in Switzerland, married Swiss citizens and had children, but never obtained Swiss passports, would be unusually hard hit by expulsion.

Kohen predicted the law would be challenged before the European Court of Human Rights.

Likewise, the European Union — with which Switzerland has signed a bilateral treaty guaranteeing freedom of movement — would probably object to its citizens being automatically deported without the chance of judicial review, he said.

During the run-up to the vote, anti-racism groups bemoaned that the People's Party's posters showed white sheep kicking black sheep off a Swiss flag, saying it played on stereotypical images of foreigners as criminals.

Virginie Studemann voted against the plan. "I think it's sad for our country," she said outside a polling station in the center of Geneva. "It's part of a concerted attack against foreigners."

Also Sunday, voters rejected a proposal to revise the country's tax system.

Swiss news agency SDA reported that 58 percent of voters opposed the plan, while 42 percent backed the proposal by the Social Democrat party to introduce a minimum tax across all Switzerland's 26 cantons, or states.

Polling group gfs.bern said earlier this month that initial enthusiasm for the plan evaporated after heavy campaigning by business groups, who warned it could harm the Swiss economy.

Several prominent billionaires also spoke out against the proposal and threatened to move abroad if it was accepted.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/top/all/7314744.html

"Credibility in immigration policy can be summed up in one sentence: Those who should get in, get in; those who should be kept out, are kept out; and those who should not be here will be required to leave."

"...for the system to be credible, people actually have to be deported at the end of the process."

US Congresswoman Barbara Jordan (D-TX)

Testimony to the House Immigration Subcommittee, February 24, 1995

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And the winning quote: "But legal experts say the law could breach offenders' human rights."

The right to commit crimes in another country other than the one they were born in and are citizens of. :blink:

No wonder western Europe is in decline. The USA isn't far behind them at the rate we are going.

This is also what happens when peoples sign away their sovereignty to international courts. They no longer control the destiny of their own country.

"Credibility in immigration policy can be summed up in one sentence: Those who should get in, get in; those who should be kept out, are kept out; and those who should not be here will be required to leave."

"...for the system to be credible, people actually have to be deported at the end of the process."

US Congresswoman Barbara Jordan (D-TX)

Testimony to the House Immigration Subcommittee, February 24, 1995

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The government will now have to draft a law requiring automatic expulsion of foreigners found guilty of crimes such as murder, rape, drug dealing or benefit fraud.

But legal experts say the law could breach offenders' human rights.

go ahead, ask me if i care.........

* ~ * Charles * ~ *
 

I carry a gun because a cop is too heavy.

 

USE THE REPORT BUTTON INSTEAD OF MESSAGING A MODERATOR!

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I'm cool with this. Complaining about offenders being denied human rights based on the claim that their expulsion is not undergoing judicial review - due process, I suppose - is nonsense. The offender was afforded due process and found guilty of a qualifying offense. Part of the punishment is expulsion from the host country. I'll never understand why civilized nations worry more about offenders than the victims. Makes no sense to me.

 

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