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Japan needs to improve medical care for detainees, says immigration chief

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By Linda Sieg

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It stands to reason every human being has the right to receive proper medical care regardless of their visum status.

However it is absolutely necessary that the Japanese government keeps immigration under very tight rules and removes people who have violated immigration law or whose applications for asylum have been rejected from Japan as soon as possible.

One thing that would approve matters considerably is to shorten the procedure to remove people from Japan when that decision has been made to avoid those people being stuck in some kind of legal limbo which only serves to fill the pockets of lawyers who needlessly prolong the eviction.

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Independent teams should be able to inspect the facilities and have full access to any part of the facility.

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In most critical cases it seems, the problem was the guards, duty personnel have ignored pleas for help. Is a bottom up awareness that hard? These fixes seem to be only 2nd and 3rd tier, guard to doctor, more doctors.

The personnel mirrors the system. An abusive system will have abusive personnel. It's the arbitrary and inordinate long stays of detainees in horrible psychological conditions that truly grind my gears. They ought to keep a cap on how long one can be held in there and possibly work with the detainees' embassies to find solutions.

Freedom is something wired in all creatures' DNA.

That's why our pets will walk out an open door of the apartment or any confinement. Japan must behave as civil as it portrays itself. Hate comparing, but they can look at Norway for ideas.

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@Cogito Ergo Sum. Japan must behave as civil as it portrays itself. 

Agreed, and only education and more speaking up about issues will move forward needed changes.

Nothing gets done i Japan until it gets negative international attention.

No shortage of that at the moment, hence this article.

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The democrats should all read this. When they constantly cry and make up stories of our detention centers holding this invaders .they have better care then a retired tax paid American. So glad Japan doesn't cuddle illegal criminals ,good for you japan. !!!

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No i disagree they do not need to improve anything. The current policy is FINE as it is.

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In most critical cases it seems, the problem was the guards, duty personnel have ignored pleas for help. Is a bottom up awareness that hard? These fixes seem to be only 2nd and 3rd tier, guard to doctor, more doctors.

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Hire medical personnel from among migrants then you will not have problems with contacts between immigrants and staff

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Fire him immediately !

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Unless you come from a first world problem country, and get arrested,you could be in for some harsh treatment as the deaths have been showing. And why do I feel that "hunger strike" is a cover-up for what happened to him?

And why do I feel that "hunger strike" is a cover-up for what happened to him?

Are you somehow suggesting that this person was killed by the Japanese government due to  applying excessive force and that they are responsible for other deaths as well ?

And not only that but apparently you also suggest there is some kind of cover-up going on at the highest governmental level ?

Surely you can provide us with proof of such outlandish accusations ?

Hunger strikes are a very well known emotional extortion tool used by rejected refugees and criminal immigrants everywhere in the world at the suggestion of NGO's in order to avoid eviction.

No government should ever yield to these types of blackmail.

Are you somehow suggesting that this is not the case and that the Japanese government killed this man due to  applying excessive force and that they are responsible for other deaths as well ?

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