Maybe it’s because they’re counting their chickens before they are hatched.

It is irrelevant whether asylum seekers are economic/political/religious asylum seekers etc… Once a person applies for asylum an interview is conducted with each and every asylum seeker and a decision is issued therein.

Moreover asylum seekers have the right to consult UNHCR before, during and after these proceedings. This right was also taken away from them, when UNHCR was denied access to them.

Below you can find the link to the Maltese Refugees Act which transcribes the 1951 Geneva Convention and the EU Qualifications Directive into Maltese law.
http://justiceservices.gov.mt/DownloadDocument.aspx?app=lom&itemid=8886

Has Hollande sent through his updated endorsement yet?

What France does with its unpublicised policy in the Comores is to effectively provide a passport.

When Sarkozy used to stop over for discussions, his meetings were not even communicated to the press and his trips were off the known itinerary.

It is one of the Maltese Goverment’s international legal obligations to ensure that these vulnerable people risking their lives crossing the sea and brought to Malta are immediately given the choice of applying for Asylum very shortly after they land.

The Refugee Commissioner has the staff and resources to process these applications and interview all new arrivals quickly.

But to make his clumsy vote-catching point (min ghalih),the schoolyard bully considered sending them back. Buffu.

All those who arrived in the last few days did not even enter Malta voluntarily. They were brought here by the AFM after they had been rescued at sea. We should be treating them as survivors not “illegal immigrants”.

Issa immaginaw li dawn kienu fuq dik id-daghjsa, Joseph kien jibghatom lura? U zgur li le. Anzi kien jghatihom id-dritt li jizzewgu u jirbah punti doppji.