State discriminates Bolivian clandestines
03/07/2012 00:00
Linda Rama: Between Family, Work and Albania’s Future 18/08 14:30
Four Bolivian citizens have remained in Albania as illegal residents,
after the police seized their passports and now they are wandering the
streets of Albania, threatened even by hunger.
The 52 year old Paola Calante is mother of six children that she has left in Santa Cruz. She is the only one that found asylum in Albania. The other three Bolivians, Juan Carlo, 20, Dora Alfano, 18, and Raul Tamaqo, have remained by themselves in Tirana.
Although they had regular visas for Albania, they were caught entering the Tirana Airport, trying to travel to Spain.
The Prosecution suspects that their permits are falsified, and that they might be victims of illegal emigration.
Leaving their country due to the poverty, now they have had their passports seized by the Albanian government, and a court order doesn’t allow them to travel abroad, obliging them to sell their clothes to have something to eat.
Paola Calante appeals the government to return to Bolivia, while Tamaqo says that he has money only for today, and he doesn’t know what he will eat tomorrow.
“I want to return to Bolivia, to my children. They have been telling me for 20 days that they will return my passport the day after. I have been sheltered in an institution that the lawyer found me, but the other three people that are with me have nothing”, Paola declared.
“We don’t know what to do, we don’t understand Albanian, we don’t know where to go. Please return us our passports”, Raul declared.
The lawyer of the four Bolivians declared for Top Channel that she will address the Court of Tirana to remove the measures against the four citizens, and allow them to return home.
This behavior has had brutal consequences on the foreign clandestine people exactly by a country that has almost half of its citizens around the world as clandestine emigrants.
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