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Amerikaanse kreeg asiel in Nederland
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Een Amerikaanse die werd belaagd door haar man kreeg in 1997 asiel in Nederland

Voor zover bekend zijn _ _ _ Collins en haar kinderen de enige Amerikanen die ooit asiel kregen in Nederland. Begin jaren zeventig vroeg de Amerikaanse deserteur Ralph Waver politiek asiel aan, maar hoewel de Raad van State positief adviseerde, kreeg hij het niet.

In een uitspraak van de Haagse arrondissementsrechtbank van 3 oktober 1996 staat: „Indien de subjectieve angst om te moeten terugkeren naar de Verenigde Staten [...] tot schade van de (psychische) gezondheid zal leiden, kan sprake zijn van klemmende redenen van humanitaire aard [...]” Een rapport van een psychiater bevestigt die angst. De IND schrijft haar daarom op 15 augustus 1997 dat er aanleiding bestaat „aan betrokkene en haar kinderen verblijf in Nederland op humanitaire gronden toe te staan”.


NIS NEWS BULLETIN:

Netherlands Gave Asylum to US Family

AMSTERDAM, 05/04/08 - It has now emerged that an American family was given asylum in the Netherlands in 1996. The justice ministry is investigating how this could have happened, newspaper NRC Handelsblad reported Friday.

_ _ _ _ Collins came to the Netherlands with her children _ _ _ _ and _ _ _ _ in 1994. She apparently fled from her husband, who reportedly systematically abused her and the children. But according to the US, the woman is guilty of abduction because the father had custody over them.

The woman lives in the town of Rijnsburg. Her neighbour recently gave her address to the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The neighbour saw a wanted-poster of the children that the FBI once distributed and tipped off the Americans, reported NRC Handelsblad.

Collins and her children are according to the newspaper in all likelihood the only Americans ever given asylum in the Netherlands. A judge ruled in 1996 that the family could remain on humanitarian grounds due to the threats of her ex-husband.

The justice ministry told the newspaper that giving asylum to Americans "is not possible." Nonetheless, it happened, NRC Handelsbald insisted.

The US authorities want to prosecute Holly for abduction. Apart from this, her children are now adult and no longer live with her.


Klein Verzet:

American Asylum seekers in Holland!

Believe it or not, even Americans can receive asylum in The Netherlands! Today Dutch newspaper NRC Next reports that an American mother and her children received asylum in the Netherlands (NL).

_ _ _ _ Collins was on the run for her abusive husband and took her two young children, _ _ _ (11) and _ _ _ (9) out of the country. She was trying to get to New Zealand, but in Amsterdam she was bumped of the flight. She did not have the required travel documents to continue and might even be forced to return to the USA. It was then she decided to apply for asylum at Amsterdam Schiphol airport. The military police officer’s to whom she requested asylum, initially just laugh at her. But as she had a well document case of abuse, they had to send her to an asylum center. In 1996 she receives official refugee status from the Dutch government.

But now, 14 years later, the children are now 25 and 21, the FBI still has a warrant out. Until recently only local Dutch police officers knew about the FBI warrant. But via the internet a neighbor of the family found out about the warrant and reported _ _ _ Collins to the FBI. The neighbor, _ _ _ _ _ , complains in the newspaper that the family of _ _ _ Collins, who now has been extended to five more biological children and three adopted children, is all on welfare and a plague for the neighborhood. He informed the neighborhood about the FBI warrant and put the warants on the house of the family.

In the US district attorney of Hennepin County, Minnesota wants to prosecute _ _ _ _ Collins. But American lawyer Alan Rosenfeld, specialized in abuse cases, thinks it’s a good case and wants to defend Ann Collins. Former Democratic majority leader of the United States House of Representatives, Steny Hoyer, even invited her to speak to the American congress about her abuse case.

And the Dutch government? They are in denial; they say it's impossible that The Netherlands gave asylum to an American.

More:
Youtube movies of daughter _ _ _ _

10 children, welfare, neighbors complaining about the family? Could it be she met a nice Muslim in the asylum center? After all, she seems to be attrackted to domminant men has been attracked to a dominant man before. If you take a look at _ _ _ _ her video, you could come to that conclusion. How irionic: American woman, flees for her abusive American husband to mary a Muslim immigrant in Holland to live from welfare.

Update:
Some commenters, who clearly love _ _ _ _ Collins very much, have reacted angrily on my above speculations (last Italic section of the story). These speculations were based on the fact that the newspaper reported that _ _ _ _ Collins now has 10 children, an extremely high number, normally only seen in Dutch Muslim families. Of course Dutch media would never let us know about these kind of details, thus I speculated on it.

Maybe that was not the right thing to do, because I do believe this is a personal tragedy. Unlike the suggestion of some commenters, I did not write that her American husband was a Muslim. Nor do I think she and her children were not abused by her former American husband. She is of course also not responsible for the abuse of her ex-husband, she is only responsible for marrying him.

As I made these speculations in the first place, I now also like to point readers to information provided by these commenters:

1) _ _ _ _ Collins is not remarried
2) There is confusion about the number of children
3) The neighbor had to appear in court the 28th of March for beating up _ _ _ _

(Unfortunately the commenters did not provided me with sources that support these claims).
Update: Video tapes
The family seems to have a very bad relationship with the neighbors (NL) who reported them to the FBI. Daughter _ _ _ _ has recorded some of them and placed the recordings on Youtube (NL) and Dutch biggest blog geenstijl.nl (NL). _ _ _ _ Collins, her daughter _ _ _ _ and their lawyer Lucas also told their story on national television (NL). No word about her partner, her other children or why the neighbors are so violent and angry.

Update: Weblog geenstijl asked questions

Weblog geenstijl.nl, in defense of _ _ _ _Collins, visited her and her neighbors (NL). In front of their video (NL) camera people in the neighborhood call the family nuts and understand, or agree with, _ _ _ _ Hogewoning. But not many details are revealed as most people refuse to talk much in front of the camera.

More information here:
Nisnews - Netherlands Gave Asylum to US Family
Weblog Geenstijl.nl - blames it all on neigbor _ _ _ _ _ (NL)