Welcome Angelica!

The Belgian police and the Foreigners' Affairs Service (DVZ) tried to repatriate Ana Cajamarca and her 11-year old daughter Angelica because they were staying in the country illegally. Ecuadoran Ana arrived with her husband on a tourist visa and stayed on, already for four years. The parents of Angelica are now separated and each has a new partner, both having the Belgian nationality.

Ana is not a political refugee, she was fleeing poverty in her Ecuadoran homeland, hoping to give chances for a better life to her daughter. After a complaint to the police that “foreigners” were walking down the street, mother and daughter were picked up and immediately incarcerated in a closed center for illegal immigrants, 127bis in Steenokkerzeel, close to Brussels airport. The Belgian authorities are locking up children behind bars because their parents don't have the right papers in violation of the European Convention on Human Rights. When police tried to transfer Ana and Angelica first to Brussels Airport and subsequently by car to Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport, they handcuffed Ana and brutally threw Angelica back into a car when they tried to escape. A doctor certified Ana's injuries.

At the eleventh hour a judge decided that both should be released immediately, to the utter frustration of the police and the fascist administrators of the Foreigners' Affairs Service. The police convoy on the way to Amsterdam had to turn back, while minister of the interior Patrick Dewael tried to subvert justice and convince the convoy's commander to continue to Schiphol.

Dewael and minister of Foreign Affairs De Gucht are liberal party members, trumpeting at each opportunity the freedom of the individual. But when a mother and daughter want to stay in Belgium to work hard for a better life, they condone the use of Gestapo practices to expel them. The Belgian wife of the Ecuadoran president accused the Belgian authorities of Gestapo practices. Later on, she retracted her words and De Gucht issued an indignant rebuttal and called the Ecuadoran ambassador for a dressing down.

Dewael and De Gucht are trying to wriggle themselves into the next Belgian government. They should be dismissed immediately from the current caretaker government and arrested for infringement of the human rights of innocent people, illegal detention, brutalities, lies and slander. The wantonly trampled under foot the European Convention on Human Rights and are getting away with it.

They claim to be liberals, uttering sweet words. Their deeds show they are fascists.

In the early 20th century, tens of thousands of Belgians fled poverty to the U.S. and Canada to seek a better life. Today we should welcome foreigners seeking a better life in Belgium. Abolish the borders! Welcome Ana and Angelica!