Sunday, September 24, 2023

The Italian 'Deposit' Fix For Asylum

 I sat and read over this Italian idea to be used for failed asylum applications.  

What they want you (the guy who failed the application for asylum) to do....is accept being picked up, and held in some detention center until you accept deportation back to your home country.  But there is a work-around.....if you come up with 5,000 Euro (I assume in cash or bank draft), and deposit it.....you can be in a special status, without detention.

From most average refugees.....they won't have this kind of cash.  Who would?  Well....mostly drug sales people.  

Maybe the Italians grasp this angle.....maybe they are a bit naïve.  Maybe they figure that the drug guy pays and stays another year, and will eventually sneak out to Austria or Germany.....forfeiting the 5,000 Euro, and it's free cash for Italy to gain.

Why limit it to 5,000 Euro?  That was my thought.....I'd actually make it 10,000 Euro.

But you could view this in another way.....forcing migrants to get aggressive about employment, and working.  If you knew you might fail the application....you might double down and show a fair amount of effort for a year (waiting for the evaluation)....to have 5,000 Euro in your hand (if the day arrives).   

All of this illegal?  I would suggest it'll be challenged up to a EU court, and likely tossed out eventually because of the EU view on things. 


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