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Syrian Refugees Demand Asylum in Japan
Posted By Daniel Greenfield On March 14, 2015 @ 1:12 pm In The Point | 18 Comments
Good luck with that. While Japan spends a fortune on foreign aid to Muslim states, it doesn’t take in refugees. In fact it set a record for refugees last year.
When it took in a whole eleven refugees. Out of 5,000 applications. Japan has yet to grant asylum to a single Syrian, presumably because it isn’t looking for welfare scrounger who kill and rape in their spare time. But the Syrians aren’t taking it lying down.
Four asylum seekers from conflict-ridden Syria will soon initiate a lawsuit against the central government to seek official refugee status, the first from their nation to do so, a lawyer said Monday
It also reflects simmering frustration among asylum seekers from Syria over Japan’s dogged refusal to grant them refugee status.
The plaintiffs are four men aged 21 to 35 who fled to Japan in 2012. Shortly after their arrival, each applied for refugee status, citing their participation in pro-democracy protests against the Syrian regime.
All were denied refugee status in early 2013, however, and have since been granted tentative residence permits out of what the government terms a “humanitarian perspective,” said lawyer Mitsuru Nanba.
Which was Japan’s mistake. The first rule of resisting Muslim colonization is never, never, never ever grant asylum status. Never.
Under the tentative residence permits, the four Syrians are currently granted a designated activities visa status that requires renewal every year.
Asylum seekers who hold this visa are unlikely to be repatriated unless the situation back home improves dramatically, Nanba said, adding these individuals are also eligible to join a national health program and to work full time.
Which means they’re now living in Japan. Their children will be born there. And you’ll have to toss them out, except that you won’t be able to ship them back to Syria. Instead you’ll, best case scenario, have to bribe a country to take them, the way Obama did with the Gitmo terrorists. Worst case scenario, they’re here for good.
Japanese leftists demand “immigration reform/colonization“.
The number of asylum applications rose 53 percent from the previous year, while the refugee recognition rate was 0.2 percent, one of the lowest among industrialized economies.
“The low recognition rate is shameful,” said immigration lawyer Shogo Watanabe.
In 2013, Japan accepted six refugees, its lowest for 15 years.
“No other developed refugee jurisdiction has such as consistently low rate,” said Brian Barbour of the Japan Association for Refugees.
Once they arrive, asylum seekers can face a grim experience. Some are locked up for years while their claims are processed. Immigration officials give the impression that they just want refugees to leave, says Gloria Okafor Ifeoma, a Nigerian asylum-seeker who arrived in Tokyo in 2007 and has spent about 30 months under lock and key.
Which is why Japan, despite its low birth rate, may actually have a future, if the left doesn’t get its way.
Korea is also unenthusiastic about refugee colonization and has only accepted less than a 100 refugees out of thousands of applications.
It’s a pity that we aren’t turning more Japanese.
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