According to Crooked Timber, The Netherlands is considering a law that would allow the deportation of young Dutch citizens of Caribbean descent back to their country-of-origin for petty crimes. Again, we're talking about "citizens" here. The bill specifically applies to people age 16-24 who come from Dutch-controlled islands in the Caribbean (Netherlands Antilles and Aruba). If they commit a crime, they can be sent back to those islands and not allowed back into Holland proper. That makes the issue a little more complex, but not much: it's like forcing a Native American who commits a crime to return to the Reservation and never be allowed to return to mainstream America, or a native Hawaiian to go back to the islands.
Details here (PDF). Sketchy stuff. I'm so glad no American legislator would call for expelling American citizens from America.
Oh gosh, did I just indulge in classic leftist Blame America Firstism?
Bad Blogger!
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