On Tue, 06 Jul 2004 16:19:37 +0900, Raj Feridun
<rferid@NOSPAMyahoo.co.jp> brought down from the Mount tablets
inscribed:

>On Tue, 06 Jul 2004 16:00:50 +0900, Ernest Schaal
><eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp> wrote:
>
>>in article 40EA4B2C.9050002@hotmail.com, Declan Murphy at
>>declan_murphy@hotmail.com wrote on 7/6/04 3:48 PM:
>
>>> Ernest Schaal wrote:
> 
>>>> For instance, in the US, if you are born there then you are a citizen. That
>>>> is the exception, not the rule. Being born in Japan doesn't necessarily make
>>>> one a Japanese citizen.
> 
>>> So what? The issue here is whether a parent (a Japanese citizen) can
>>> keep his (legally adopted) kid in the country where he (the
>>> parent/citizen) and the kid's only family (he and her grandmother) live.
>>> The citizenship of the kid isn't relevant here.
>
>>The point I was making is that each country can determine who is a citizen
>>and who is not, and if a person is not a citizen then that country can
>>deport the non-citizen and/or refuse re-admittance of a non-citizen who has
>>left the country.
>
>>If they wanted to, under international law, they could send her packing to
>>Thailand. Under international law, they could send her packing even if she
>>was born here, if she is not a citizen. Now, Japanese law could limit their
>>options.
>
>Forgetting the letter of the law for a moment how about a MORAL
>interpretation of the code, Ernest? How about taking into
>consideration that she has loving Japanese grandparents who have
>legally adopted her and want to raise her here and that her parents in
>Thailand are dead?

That's what is technically known as "S.E.P", I think.

Who was the US Supreme Court justice who, when an attorney pleading
before the court asked for justice, snapped (I paraphrase, perhaps)
"Young man, this is a court of law, not justice!"

What I wonder about....if the child were from North America or Europe,
would the law have been applied the same way?






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