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clark.w.griswald
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| Aristotle wrote: |
| This case stinks from top to bottom of corruption and coercion. |
The case seems pretty clear to me:
1. The guy was deported as the government search for the institution he claimed his degree was from was not on any approved list.
2. He came back and made an appeal - which the government took the time to hear, thereby proving that foreigners (even those who have been deported) have the right to appeal.
3. He was subsequently allowed to remain here.
4. It appears now that the reason the institution was not found by the earlier search was because it was one of those phoney online institutions, so it does seem that the initial deportation was in order.
All I see is incompetence in the fact that a decision was overturned without first doing some investigation.
Where is the evidence of corruption and coercion that you speak of? |
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Xenophobe
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| Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 3:09 am Post subject: |
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| This entire issue clearly demonstrates how most things in Taiwan are handled half assed backwards. Usually it works in the foreigner's favour, but there are times that there are glaring miscarriages of justice. I seem to recollect a news story a few years back about an tourist from Alberta spending some time in a Taiwanese prison, after being mistakenly accused for stealing a bottle of booze. Even after the store admitted that they were wrong, he was held because the police filed the incorrect papers for his release. |
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clark.w.griswald
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| Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 4:52 am Post subject: |
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| Xenophobe wrote: |
| This entire issue clearly demonstrates how most things in Taiwan are handled half assed backwards. |
By this are you trying to suggest that beauracratic bungling is unique to Taiwan? Of course it isn't. Every country has it's problems, and there is no evidence that Taiwan has any more such problems than anywhere else in the world.
There was a story just recently of an Australian resident of Phillippine heritage who was deported by accident and spent many years in a refuge in the Phillippines. There are stories such as this from every country of the world.
What the case clearly shows however, and no one can dispute this, is that the theory that 'foreigners have no legal rights in Taiwan' has been debunked. The legal processes clearly show that foreigners DO have rights here should they seek to pursue these through legal channels. |
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