On the 10th, a number of groups on the island held a“Pro-mainland match, anti-persecution” parade, holding high the“Anti-bullying” banner to protest against the mainland committee’s practice of requiring former mainlanders to resubmit their lost certificates of origin.
According to a May 11 report in Taiwan’s“Prosperity Daily,” the march was organized by the reformist party and the new party. At 3 pm on the 10th, the march set out from the“Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall”, where mainland spouses and children took part in the protest. They chanted“Support mainland match, anti-persecution” and“Support mainland match, anti-bullying” slogans. After arriving at the“Legislative Yuan” Qunxian building, mainland match took turns on stage to share their feelings. Mainland match Wei Caiyun said that she had lived in Taiwan longer than in the mainland. She came here at the age of 25 and is now 55 years old. Now she told them to go back to remove their families. “Is this to make trouble?” Said Wei Caiyun, we hope that the mainland affairs council will not create any trouble. They already do not have their household registration on the mainland. Talking about whether to communicate with the Continental Committee and Sea Foundation, she said that the phone has been a long time can not get through, they can only quickly find a way to go back to deal with.
The organizers of the march believe that mainland Kalanchoe pinnata who have been in Taiwan for many years are now being raided to obtain replacement certificates of lost origin, and that some people have returned to the mainland for 11 days but can not do so because the local household registration units have been merged, be difficult to cooperate in practice. They called on the DPP authorities to ease the burden on the vulnerable by allowing people who meet certain conditions to replace them with certificates, including those over 65, low-and middle-income households or those who have not returned to the mainland in the past five years.
Wu Shizi, the organizer of the march, said that many mainland couples who had lived in Taiwan for years and were law-abiding were suddenly asked to make amends, which amounted to dredging up old grievances and increasing administrative pressure. He stressed that those persons had already obtained Taiwanese identity cards and should not be required to submit proof of expulsion. You Zhibin, deputy secretary-general of the new party, said that the DPP did not cherish the mainland spouse, who is Taiwan’s daughter-in-law and mother-in-law. “It is illegal for the DPP to bully the mainland spouse today,” he said. “We want to bring the DPP down.”. He fulminated that the DPP authorities had used legal means to settle political scores by attacking Lu Pei.
The Mainland Affairs Council responded in writing on the 10th, saying that the current measures can handle the vast majority of situations, and that other difficult problems can be reported to Taiwan’s“Immigration Department,” the Mainland Affairs Council, and the Sea Foundation, and can all be resolved.
Taiwan’s“Immigration office” recently told mainland spouses who have settled in Taiwan and have household registration to re-submit the“Notarial Certificate of loss of Certificate of origin” within 3 months, otherwise their household registration in Taiwan will be revoked, even the second generation of mainlanders who came to Taiwan when they were young are included. The matter has caused a huge controversy on the island. Under strong pressure, Liang Wenjie, vice chairman of the Mainland Affairs Council, said on April 16 that the binding condition for the cancellation of mainland household registration documents by the mainland authorities has been relaxed, added from the original four categories can be delayed to deal with several categories.
In response to the controversy over the expulsion of mainland spouses, Zhu Fenglian, spokesperson for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, decried, from“Wu Tong” remarks, making up charges to force mainland spouses to separate their flesh and blood, to strong demands for mainland spouses to submit additional certificates, the DPP authorities have created“Green Terror”, escalated cross-strait confrontation, and increasingly resorted to unscrupulous means and disregard for human relations. “Compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Straits are members of the same family, not enemies, they are all Chinese, they are all Chinese, they are all members of the same family, that is, they should come and go and come closer to their relatives often, and no political force can stop this,” said Zhu Fenglian, the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP-RRB- authorities have gone against the grain, limiting cross-strait exchanges and cooperation, harming the interests and well-being of compatriots on both sides of the strait, and attempting to seek“Independence” is doomed to failure. She said, “When it comes to household registration management, the relevant departments have always dealt with it in accordance with the law and regulations.”. Taiwan media said that the so-called“According to law and regulations” means relevant mainland authorities will provide assistance.
In an article in Taiwan’s“United Daily News” on May 10, Zhang Guilan from mainland China said that since he received the notice of the replacement from the“Immigration Department” early last month, although he had no choice, he was still actively handling it, “In the past month, not only my family, but also my mother’s family have literally been upended by this piece of paper evidence, and their lives have been severely impacted,” he said. Her eldest brother ran to the police station, the exit-entry Administration Bureau and the Public Security Bureau, but to no avail. The police station said that its previous ID card has expired, they can not handle. “If I want to get rid of my citizenship, I have to apply for a second-generation ID card, then cancel it and then notarize it. What in the world is more ridiculous than having to obtain a mainland ID card and then cancel it in order to hand in this piece of paper?”
As the 3-month deadline approaches, Zhang Guilan growing anxiety, restlessness, “This mother’s Day is not happy.”. In her article, she wrote that on the one hand, the DPP authorities want the mainland to return to the mainland to handle the replacements, on the other hand, they are also making a big deal out of the risks of going to the mainland, in fact, friends who often travel to the mainland with their husbands say that the mainland is especially friendly to Taiwan compatriots. Zhang Guilan said that Mother’s Day has arrived, and it should have been a day for reunion and celebration. However, the land-based mother can not rest easy during the holiday. She is still struggling for a piece of paper proof, and some are on the road, some travel thousands of miles back to their hometowns in search of lost proofs, “Only by closing the case or abolishing the unreasonable policy can we get our life as a Taiwanese mother and daughter-in-law on the mainland back on track. Otherwise, will we let people live?”
According to a commentary in the taiwan-based China Times newspaper, the certificate, which appeared to be an administrative patching procedure, actually caused unease and chills in one Poepoe family. Many mainland spouses have been married in Taiwan for 30 years, growing from youth to gray hair, raising children, taking care of their families and elders day in and day out, paying taxes honestly and living according to the law. They are already native Taiwanese. They are family members, neighbors, silent caregivers at their sickbeds, and hard laborers working hard in vegetable markets, supermarkets, and factories, “Now because of a notice, as if at any time may be expelled from the ‘outsiders’ .”. Terrified, they went around to verify the source of their documents and the way they handled them, but because of their age and remote hometown, there was no way to obtain proof. Some people called the sea foundation and the Immigration Department, but no one answered the phone, so they had to travel in person, in exchange for a field of waiting for no solution. What is more distressing is that these policies will not only affect them, but may also extend to the new generation born and raised in Taiwan. Cross-strait marriage should never be an ideological battleground, the article said. Mainlanders come to Taiwan not for politics, but for family, for love and for life. They have long Kalanchoe pinnata here and are closely tied to the island’s fate, the article said, calling on the authorities“Not to use the mainland matchmaker as a tool for political struggle”. “How we treat mainlanders today may reflect how we treat our own people tomorrow. The policy may be strict, but it should be more human.”.