Over 200.000 Albanians
may be expelled from Switzerland
MakFax - September 22, 2006
Tirana /22/09/ 12:03 - More than
200.000 Albanians may be expelled from Switzerland if the country endorses the
new immigration law, Tirana's dailies said.
Media in Tirana say the associations of Kosovo Albanians in Switzerland are
deeply concerned amid initiatives on tougher immigration and asylum laws.
If the Swiss vote for the law on aliens and refugees, at least 200.000 Albanians
from Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro and Albania may be forced out of the country.
Kosovo Albanian associations in Switzerland called on roughly 20.000 Albanians
who had acquired Swiss citizenship to oppose the revised asylum law.
Several leftist parties and NGOs remained adamantly opposed to the draft-law,
arguing that the law breaches human rights.
Swiss government reckons that current situation in the 21st century requires new
regulations concerning aliens. The current law on foreign nationals entered into
effect 70 years ago.
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