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Africa North
Egypt to Deport 600 Sudanese
2006-01-03
Egyptian authorities are preparing to deport some 600 Sudanese, part of a group of nearly 2,000 people detained after police forcibly broke up a protest in Cairo, a Sudanese official said yesterday. “The targeted number of Sudanese who will be flown on an Egyptian airliner is around 600,” Maj. Gen. Bashir Ahmed Bashir, who chairs a committee formed to receive the deportees, told AFP.
"We've killed enough of them. The rest can go back where they came from."
A Sudanese diplomatic source, meanwhile, said the death toll among the refugees after the violent clashes Friday with security forces outside the Cairo offices of the UN refugee agency UNHCR had increased to 27. The dead include 12 children, eight women and seven men, a spokesman for Sudan’s Embassy in Cairo told AFP. The toll rose after more people died of their injuries in hospitals across the city. The Sudanese Embassy also said that Egypt planned to begin the deportations yesterday with a small group of 13 Sudanese.

Egyptian officials said that only individuals whose asylum requests the UNHCR has rejected and do not have legal residence in Egypt will be expelled. Human rights groups have expressed concern for the safety of those being returned, many of who lost their documents when Egyptian security forces stormed the park where they had been protesting for three months.
Posted by:Fred

#4  Yes indeed Old Partiot. Thanks for the correction. Term limits would solve this problem I suspect.
Posted by: Besoeker   2006-01-03 16:27  

#3  Unfortunately, it's not the Immigration Service that's the main problem, but Congress. They've been dragging their feet about many things that need to be done to reduce illegal immigration in this country. Also to blame are a large number of groups (ACLU, etc.) that fight everything that's attempted, employers that hire illegals knowingly, local and state governments that refuse to crack down on illegals, and the Mexican government that encourages illegal immigration from Mexico. It may take a shooting border war to stop the mess.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2006-01-03 16:01  

#2  US Immigration Service (spit spit) take note.
Posted by: Besoeker   2006-01-03 14:20  

#1  France take note here. Deportation works!
Posted by: 49 pan   2006-01-03 08:13  

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