_Stop Deportations_

"1: Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees,
2: to deprive the poor of their rights ...and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless." - Isaiah 10:1-2

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"He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor." - Proverbs 14:31 

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"You shall not oppress a foreigner. You know the heart of a foreigner, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt."- Exodus 23:9

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  "SPEAK up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute."

- Proverbs 31:8

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On Parliamentary Cretinism and the Obsolete Nation-State System:

The fundamental issue is that Nation States operate on the premise that they have a "sovereign right" to ignore and declare ''non-binding'' fundamental human rights guaranteed by the United Nations Human Rights Charter. Under the current system of international law, the sovereign rights of states are  considered above the human rights of persons. The forced removal of Afghan asylum seekers to a war zone is in fact a crime against human rights. The asylum seekers human rights movement should call  for a moratorium on deportations to Afghanistan until the war is officially over as well as an amnesty for Afghan asylum seekers under the age of 18. Everyone, including all migrants and asylum-seekers, have the right to liberty and freedom of movement. In principle, migrants and asylum-seekers should not be detained for migration control purposes. Seeking asylum or being in an irregular undocumented situation is not a crime. Detention must always be a last resort.

Article 13.
(1) Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state.
(2) Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.

Article 14.
(1) Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.
(2) This right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions genuinely arising from non-political crimes or from acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.

The police repression being meted out to asylum seeker activists in Europe (specifically during recent asylum seeker protests in Munich, Germany and Brussels, Belgium), is a direct attack upon the political rights of migrants, rights guaranteed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Article 18.
Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.

Article 19.
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

Article 20.
(1) Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.
(2) No one may be compelled to belong to an association.

The reason nation states consider the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 'non-binding', is that its enforcement would spell the end of the arbitrary system of power relations which sustain the elite status of the political classes who administer the international nation state system. The ''legitimacy'' of nation-state power is based upon monopoly of violence; i.e. the assemblies of armed men called police and military. The nation states of Europe in particular are administered by technocratic bureaucracies and an entrenched professional political class; these elements constitute an elite strata similar to the 'nomenklatura' in the former Soviet Union. The facade of ''parliamentarism'' is in fact an oligarchy. The power of the nation-state rests upon its ability to deploy armed force in order to impose the political will of the state over persons. ''Social cohesion'' is maintained on the basis of the threat of force and through mass surveillance. The obsolete nation-state system rests on a throne of bayonets. The nation-state is in fact a concentration of political and economic power that claims ''soveregnity'' on the premise of socially constructed national myths. The protection of the national myth is the basis for the convenient declaration of universal human rights standards as ''non-binding''. 

If those who govern the European nation state system consider the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to be 'non-binding'; then those who struggle for a world without borders and for the rights of the undocumented and of asylum seekers are justified to deploy the tactics of  non-violent civil disobedience against the police state tactics of the government; tactics which serve as the foundation for the migration control regime. The struggle against deportation is the struggle against the abuse of state power by the political class and a struggle against the police state. 

Source of image above: http://www.aktionmotdeportation.se/

On the specific issue of mass deportations to Afghanistan see also:

Kabulblog

Aktion mot deportation is a secular (non-religious) activist network working to stop deportations of undocumented persons and asylum seekers from Sweden. The views elsewhere expressed in this weblog are not necessarily those of the Aktion mot deportation network or its members.