There has been a NIMBY (not in my back yard) message sent (not even in a prison in my back yard) from many locations in the US should President Obama close the military prison at Guantanamo Bay and possibly release some of the Muslim prisoners who have been there for years.
Well, look here, Portugal and Ireland may accept them as asylees. Good luck with that.
IRELAND SHOULD follow Portugal’s lead in agreeing to grant refugee status to exonerated Guantánamo detainees who cannot return home due to the risk of torture or other mistreatment, Amnesty International has said.
Amnesty’s Irish section was responding to Portuguese foreign minister Luis Amado’s commitment to accept for resettlement Guantánamo inmates cleared for release. Mr Amado outlined the move in a letter to his EU counterparts to mark this week’s 60th anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Referring to US president-elect Barack Obama’s stated wish to close the detention centre, Mr Amado argued that the EU should “send a clear signal of our willingness to help the US government resolve this problem” by granting asylum to exonerated detainees who fear persecution if returned to their countries of origin.