JEPHTHA VA LITTLE POWER BACK IN GUADELOUPE
Raffles and deported the same day
Jephthah, I mentioned in my previous post precisely "in 2008, his deportation was outrage. Born on French soil and having always lived, Jephthah was 5 years old when he was arrested with his father in September, the day before classes begin. His father, Haitian illegal immigrants had taken him to buy her a new pair of shoes on the occasion of its third school year. It will be enough of an identity check for the father and son were deported the same day of their arrest to Port-au-Prince, without even a change of clothes. They were abandoned to their fate after the passage of the first two hurricanes and deadly as Hurricane Hanna threatened. "I even worried about whether he had survived the hurricanes that have devastated Haiti while he was there and especially to the earthquake. In Guadeloupe, Jephthah became the symbol of injustice against undocumented immigrants, and his case was legitimately excited everyone.
picture of Jephthah and his dad, published on the website in September 2008 UGTG
A fight for survival
Guadeloupe Four lawyers who had taken up the cause of him from the day of his expulsion, Sarah Aristide, Roland Ezelin, Evita Chevry and Felix Rodes, managed to get him. In a letter to the prefect February 8, 2010, they reveal what they learned: "(...) Today and quake of magnitude 7 on the Richter scale of 13 January that hit Haiti, Jephthah and his father have no roof over their heads. Their house in Port au Prince collapsed like a house of cards. (...) Today is a sick, weakened by so many vicissitudes, which is fighting to stay alive and who owes his salvation to the solidarity that was precariously established around them. Indeed it seems to suffer from dysentery, convulsions, hunger and thirst, food and medicines sent by international organizations being unable to them, since they live in a remote district of Port au Prince, little accessible. Unnecessary in these circumstances, attempting to describe the daily battle that they lead to stay alive and this even though they have no family there and had up to that decision quashed illegality of their own lives in GUADELOUPE. "
For purely humanitarian reasons
Reeve, Jean Fabre, just responded positively to the request return made by lawyers, by sending a letter to Sarah Aristide in which he writes: "I am willing (...) given the dire health situation in Haiti and thus for purely humanitarian reasons: 1) to accept the return of Guadeloupe Jephthah and his father Tillius Depreux, 2) to grant the family, Mrs. Saimpre, M Depreux Jephthah and the child a right of residence on the basis of private and family life. "
Having inflicted so much suffering to a boy of 5 years ...
This is obviously a huge victory that can celebrate all those for whom the notions of justice and human rights are not only values loincloth, commonly spread in national debates nauseating. Humanly, we can welcome the fact that the nightmare of this little boy, sharply away from his mother by the police of the country of his birth, his friends, exposed to several natural disasters and dire poverty, is completed. Hopefully he can recover without physically keep the legacy of horrific events that he has cross. Also hope he can overcome the psychological trauma that are probably hers today ... The fact that his father could accompany him there will probably help. The group of lawyers had attracted the attention of the warden on the situation of the man: "It is time that this little boy finds his life, his mother, without being separated from his father, which would amount to a new tear. Furthermore, what would it Mr DEPREUX, abandoned, alone and destitute of all resources and affection of her child. It is surely destined to a life of wandering and misery, that will lead inevitably to death, since all private and special affection of his people who have been waiting over a year. "
figures
Symbolically too, Jephthah is living proof that solidarity, generosity and perseverance can more than cold Sarkozia machine that thinks only make the figure as slaughter and constantly patting themselves for the good results, certainly seeking thereby to retain its new extreme-right electorate. But if there is to be welcomed, however we must bear in mind that his case is not isolated, far from it. While the warden finds a solution to most media, but the system itself that must be challenged, if not in six months, others are small Jephthah returned to Haiti and will experience the same suffering.
tree hiding the forest
Jephthah is only the tip of the iceberg. Situations as tragic as hers, there are much, much suffering anonymous faceless and nameless to us, just figure in the mouth or Hortefeux Besson. In their letter, the lawyers point out this truth: "Since then, numerous reports made to the prefecture as well as the prefecture, have denounced the inhuman conditions which were treated with foreigners and their difficulties to obtain the regularization their situation. "This must stop. Together we must demand the legalization of all undocumented Haitians who live so far on French soil, our silence we are complicit in these acts unworthy of a democracy that respectable.
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