Although it seemed calm in recent years with the expulsion of children, the issue of the Imuse family is the third in a relatively short time. The Babayants family, who also stayed in the AZC in Emmen, has been looking for protection in a church in Kampen for months after it was decided to send them back to Uzbekistan. And another Nigerian family was arrested in February, but the judge in favor of them. According to Stomphorst, the IND must again look at the affair of the Imuse family.
“These are rooted children, Dutch children. That we deal with that in such a way is not normal,” says Stomhorst. In the morning she had been to the family for a while. “The family hopes that there will be a decision that will stop their deportation on Thursday. It is working on a legal level. But I cannot say to them:” It will be fine. “They can only hope, eventually the judge has to decide.”
The family is having a hard time, says Stomphorst. She takes 7-year-old Rejoice as an example. “It is difficult to describe in words what she feels, but she does make drawings about how she experiences it. Drawings with sad smileys, for example, she has to go to dance class, but her dance teacher does not know where she is. She is worried about that.”
The return and departure service of the Ministry of Asylum and Migration has been asked for a response about this case, but says it does not respond to individual cases.