When Human Rights Watch posed the same question to Brigadier General Kordatos, he
said, “They are overwhelmingly economic migrants. We don’t want them clogging the
system for people with legitimate claims.”229 This begs the questions, of course, where
the people with legitimate claims are supposed to lodge their claims and how the
legitimacy of claims are to be determined based on faces of people lined on a crowded
sidewalk.
229
Human Rights Watch interview with Kordatos, Secretariat of Public Order, June 6, 2008.
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