Published: 22 Sep 12 09:57 CET | Print version
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A two-year-old girl currently living in a foster home in Skåne in southern Sweden faces deportation to France where, according to her foster mother, she will be placed in an orphanage.
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Whilst public officials are paid by the people, through their taxes, to follow the rules I find it very hard to believe that any Swede that I know would wish to pay these officials.If the foster parents are willing and able to give this child a home, then the State should find a way to do this.In England the child could be made a 'ward of the court' to surmount the difficulties of missing parent/s.,there must be some similar scenario here in Sweden.
This is an exceptional case and calls for exceptional compassion on behalf of the public servants charged with protecting the population.
Please,Sweden, show your heart.
What will happen if one starts to make exceptions to the law? It starts with a young child, but where does it end? What will happen if the girl gets to stay and then her parents show up? Will she be returned to her parents? Will her parents show up from hiding and try and stay in Sweden? The immigration system is already in shambles.
At the same time it`s sad that young children have to leave while young adults who trick their way into Sweden stays.
leges sine moribus vanae
Offcourse you are right but as the mother has French citizenship nothing as I could see would stop her to come to Sweden to live anyway?
She could do anything she want`s, nothing has stopped her so far. But if it`s right is another question. The afghan guy didn`t get to stay in Sweden by the way.
There is a serious problem of stateless children. Not every nation has are signitory to the UN convention that is suppose to prevent that.
This girls situation is sad.
Any French person can live in Sweden at any time. The little girl was born in Sweden, which makes her just as Swedish as anyone else. And if she grows up in Sweden, she will grow up with Swedish values.
As for her mother, most likely the people she was fleeing caught up with her and she is dead.
I am also wondering why there is a problem as born in Sweden? My Swedish friend had a baby in Canada and the baby was automatically Canadian even though she wasnt.
I am afraid you are right. I also believe she might be dead.
She was born in Sweden, she's a Swede, and she deserves a break.
Both her parents are french citizens, that makes her a french citizen aswell, even though she was born in Sweden.
In Canada, USA and in the rest of the north and southamerican countries it works differently. They have something called Jus soli which means that the country where a baby is born will give it citizenship. That`S why your friends baby became a canadian citizen.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jus_soli
Not so in Sweden and in most other parts of the world. If this girls dad or mom was a Swede then she would be a swedish citizen. But since her dad is french and her mom aswell she becomes a french citizen. She is not a Swede.
France is more then able to take care of this child.
When a foreigners child is born in Sweden the child becomes the citizen of the mothers country - I have 2 children who only where allowed to become Swedish if their mother became a swedish citizen
If you disagree with the law, act to change it rather than to corrupt it. When you pit Horace against Burchard (a laughable concept all in itself) you are really declaring for anarchy. No law is infinately worse than bad law. In a territory with no law warlords rule arbitrarily. If he or his henchmen catch a fancy to your daughter, gone! If they catch a fancy to your house, gone! If they dont like you, you die. Noone can create anything since the men of violence will take it from you. How do you think the Taliban came to power in Afghanistan? They represented law, as opposed to the 10-20 years of no law that had reigned before them.
Dura lex, sed lex. Is still all that needs to be said about this issue. And all you people who argue that the law should be ignored in just this instance because you feel so terribly sentimental. You are irresponsible children. Chaos, cruelty, violence and mayhem will be your creation when you succeed in abolishing the rule of law.