Immigration Bureau decides to delay decision on deportation of Noriko Calderon
January 14th, 2009 by James
The Tokyo Immigration Bureau decided today that it would continue to delay its decision on the deportation of Noriko Calderon, a girl born in Japan to Filipino parents who entered the country illegally. Noriko and her parents have once again been given temporary permission to stay in Japan while their case is under consideration. The new deadline is February 13th.
TBS, the only major Japanese network that has been giving significant attention to this case, reported on the latest developments:
The report quotes an unnamed Immigration Bureau official who says that it is possible that Noriko could get special permission to stay in Japan, but it is unlikely that the government would grant special residency visas to her parents. If they want to live together as a family, they would have to go to the Philippines.
What decision should the Tokyo Immigration Bureau make about the Calderon family?
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Normally, it would be simple, deport them all, but they should have done that years ago before the girl started going to school.
Someday the Immigration department will actually write a more comprehensive set of rules to account for unusual situations, mnay of which are made far worse than necessary by the very indecision resulting from the random enforcement or not of unwritten rules.
Whatever they choose, I’m sure it will complement the stated policy goal of the J govt. to welcome more immigrants [if only they weren't fucking gaijin]
I heard about similar cases in Latin America.
The most interesting case happened in Argentina, when a young korean girl from an illegal family wrote a letter to the president asking to be given permission to live legally in that country. The president was touched and approved legal status for her family (I heard that other families were benefited as well). I’m not sure if this story really happened but if true it was a happy ending.
Argentina and Japan are different, since in Argentina half the country is inhabited so they need people to live there, but Japan on the contrary has too much people and limited land.
“but Japan on the contrary has too much people and limited land.”
Japan on the contrary has a falling population and a lack of younger people.
Interesting point. But would it be a fair reason to let the girl (and her family) to stay in japan?
Contrary to Argentina and Korea,there’s so called “rule of law” exists in this country.
True enough. I was going to tell the Japanese (or any industrialized nation, for that matter), that they don’t have to be so restrictive on immigration in order to preserve the racial purity of their country. We Filipinos won’t come in and take over Japan while the Japanese are still around. We’ll take over after the Japanese have wiped themselves out thanks to failing birthrates. Not our fault.
I really think the Japanese should have more children. Who’s going to make anime if they’re gone?
You know, my argument so far has been that if parents commit a crime, they don’t throw the kids in jail (although, I hear this is changing…), so why should Noriko-chan be deported/exiled/punished along with her parents. Now, if they want to deport her parents but let her stay, I have no more arguments…
I feel like they should let the parents stay until Noriko can become independent… but that may be too lenient, so maybe they should just deport the parents and Noriko can live with a friend. The parents have created a very bad situation for their daughter, and I hope she can overcome it. All the attention over this ONE illegal immigration case astounds me though…
The case is a touchstone for a whole bundle of issues around national identity, citizenship and parenting. That’s why it has got the attention.