Regarding the revision of the Immigration Control Law to review the way foreigners are detained, the government maintains the general framework that was scrapped two years ago, but includes a system to review every three months whether detention should be continued. , we are coordinating to submit a bill to the regular Diet to avoid prolongation.
A proposal to revise the Immigration Control Law, etc., submitted by the government two years ago to review the way foreigners are detained, was criticized by the opposition party as inappropriate, and the bill was scrapped due to the incident of deaths in detention facilities.
Regarding this revision, the government is coordinating to resubmit it to the ordinary Diet session after partially revising it.
Specifically,
regarding the provisions that suspend deportation while applying for refugee status, there are cases where people try to avoid deportation by repeating applications, so in principle they will not be applied after the third application, and
▽ Deportation . Until then, the principle of
detaining them in a facility should be changed,
and
they should be allowed to live under supporters called "supervisors" who have been approved by the immigration office.
However, it is said that the basic framework of the bill will be maintained
, such as the creation of a new system that allows people fleeing conflict to be subject to protection in the same way as refugees .
On the other hand, as modifications,
▽ In order to avoid prolonging the detention as much as possible, in addition to newly incorporating a system to consider whether detention should be continued every three months
, and abolish the mandatory reporting obligation.