The Immigration Bureau is a facility where foreigners in Japan go through visa procedures, and also houses those who do not have visas and are subject to deportation. Two of my clients, both Filipina women, had been detained at the Immigration Bureau for one to two years, but were released on provisional release this past December.
Ms. A had been detained for over a year after the extension of his provisional release was denied. When her son was deported and sent back to the Philippines, Ms. A had no choice but to give up her resistance and return home at the end of December this year. While in detention, she began to experience many symptoms such as headaches, dizziness, shoulder pain, and high blood pressure. The hospital in the immigration detention center had a waiting list for appointments, the time was short (about 5 minutes), and they did not give her enough time for examination.
Since Ms. B has a Japanese husband and two children in Japan, she could not return to her country. She was arrested for being involved in the operation of an unauthorized Philippine pub and was also sent to jail, but as soon as she was released, she was detained by the Immigration Bureau, meaning that she had been in custody for a total of more than five years. Since the beginning of this year, not knowing when she would be released for the sake of her husband and child, she lost her appetite and her weight by 15 kilograms; in November, she was hospitalized in an emergency for this reason and was granted a parole just before she was about to die.
In both cases, the intention of the immigration authorities is to push the inmate to the very edge until he or she voluntarily returns home, and then give up and force him or her to return voluntarily. In both cases, the immigration authorities intended to push the detainees to the very edge until they voluntarily returned home, and then force them to give up and return home voluntarily. The situation was so bad that some of them committed suicide, which was covered by the media. This trend led to the provisional release of the two prisoners this time.
It was good that they were granted provisional release, but now that the lawsuit has been withdrawn, it is no longer possible to question the inhumane policies of the Immigration Bureau. (The case was to revoke the denial of provisional release because it was illegal, so it had to be withdrawn due to the provisional release. I had mixed feelings, but it was my duty as a lawyer to put my client's physical condition first. Nevertheless, there are still many detainees being held in the Immigration Bureau. I still have a lot of work to do to change this backward country.
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