Massive victory as first Rwanda detention flight stopped at 11th hour. But the fight continues.

 

Yesterday evening, hundreds of people gathered outside the Home Office, protesting against the government’s policy of deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda. Moments before the protest took place, the Court of Appeal ruled that the first deportation flight would go ahead, despite the best efforts of various campaign groups.

The first plane was set to fly with 11 asylum seekers on board, down from 130 after a flurry of individual legal battles. While the government claimed the policy of removing migrants who arrive in the UK illegally will deter people from making dangerous channel crossings, campaign groups such as Care4Calais have described it as “cruel and barbaric.”

However in heartwarming news and a massive victory  for all who campaigned against it the  planned flight to deport refugees to Rwanda by Priti Patel  and the toxic Tory Governmment was forced to cancel  their unlawful plans  last night, at 22.00  minutes before it was due to take off, after an intervention by European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) judges ruled they face real danger of inhuman and degrading treatment there.

This is  a truly historic moment and a powerful first step  against this barbaric policy. The ECHR rarely intervenes in the legal affairs of its member countries and only does so when they believe that people's fundamental human rights are at serious risk.essential outcome for the people seeking safety. But alas this is not a permanent injunction against Rwanda deportations. The European Court of Human Rights intervened because a final decision about whether this policy is legal has yet to be made in UK courts.

This all serves to show us hown important human rghts protections are. 

We should celebrate last night as a victory for justice, but the  fight is far from over.as the Tories say they are already planning the next flight. and are hellbent in pressing on with this inhumane and heartless plan, even if only one person was on ord, a move which would have made someone the most expensive refugee ever  by a margin of several million pounds, and today we see the Government lashing out, blaming everyone but itself for this cruel farce. In particular, it will see this as an opportunity to pursue its anti-courts, anti-rights, anti-protest agenda – continuing to attack those who hold it accountable.

In July, there will be a hearing to determine whether the Rwanda policy is lawful or not. It remains to be seen whether the Government will attempt another flight before then, as it had planned. 

It’s all the more important we continue to build and amplify resistance to the Rwanda deal from all sides. 

The  people the UK Government wants to deport came to the UK seeking sanctuary and protection..They are our responsibility. .Being an asylum seeker is not a choice. People are forced to leave their homes and risk their lives to seek safety. Currently in the UK thy face deportation to the an unknown and unsafe destination, to  country with an appalling human rights record, that they have no connection with whatsover Seeking asylum through the UK's hostile system is already traumatic enough, and the cruel Rwanda plan is the last strike to destroy what is left of asylum seekers' spirit..

The ongoing threat of removal will continue to cause human suffering, distress and chaos for desperate people who have escaped war, persecution and torture. Shockingly, those at risk include young people who have been incorrectly assessed as adults. This is having a huge impact on their mental health, with distressing reports of self-harm. Our human rights are designed to protect us from these exact situations which fundamentally threaten our safety and that would have put people at risk of serious harm had they been deported to Rwanda. 

I support free movement and equal rights for all. We as people should be trying to promote unity between all.This is what a free society encompasses, the freedom of movement, including freedom of immigration and emigration. We should support the rights and dignity and respect of immigrants and refugees, and people forced to live without status.Many people are forced to live undocumented after having their applications for asylum refused, many escaping persecution, war,  fleeing in fear, escaping danger, in search of safety, a better future. Forced to live underground, hidden lives.

We all have the right  to settle wherever we please, are we not according to the principle ' From each according to his ability, to each according to her need ' entitled  to equal access to the worlds land resources.' Immigration  laws are inherently racist, because their purpose is to exclude outsiders, and feed and legitimise racism, and in the process causes intolerable  suffering to many people.

People of the world  should all be entitled to the same universal social, political and economic rights and conditions, with or or without papers, with  the same  entitlement to the world's resources.We should at same time recognise the many valuable  contributions to society made by migrants, immigrants and refugees stretching  back centuries. Every country in the world has it's richness and diversity because of  the waves of immigration that have occurred. We should recognise the people who daily, risk everything, including their life, to leave their own country's, their family and friends, in search of a new and better life.

I see no contradiction in my support for the Palestinian people against their illegal apartheid wall, the walls  that have been created  in open air prisons in Gaza, the West Bank, are the same as any other border wall strewn with barbed wire that bleed migrants, or walls that are erected  as barriers to dignity and humanity, from Mexico, and the internment camps of Australia, to Fortress.

From the Hostile Environment to the Rwanda cash-for-humans scheme, the anti-migrant agenda  has such a devastating impact on the people affected. Instead of looking for safe and legal routes, instead of  funding peace-building, conflict prevention programmes around the world, the government are still in all their evil not giving up their plans  to send people who have come here looking for asylum to somewhere where they’re not going to be safe. If the Government truly wanted to stop people smugglers and save  lives they would give refugees visas to cross the Channel in a similar way to Ukrainians . With these visas, refugees could then claim asylum on arrival in the UK This would put people smugglers out of business straightaway.

We must continue to fight every day against the cruelty of  Patel and Johnson's hostile racist environment, who have as expected  found the judgement ' sursprising' and ' dissapointing' , this says so much about their moral fibre, to me not a grain exists, both lacking any form of coompassion or empathy for fellow human beings. 

Lets maintain our opposition to Rwanda offshore detention and deportations, scrap the Natioonality and Borders Act, while  helping to make make Britain a place where our communities our strong and open, and standing up for the rights of those seeking a safer life here, while at same time  do all we can to stop the British government and British corporations fostering conflict, poverty and inequality around the world. Solidarity is a beautiful and powerful thing.  Imagine a world free of borders, it's easy if you try, the sky has none, there is only one world. no borders are necessary, no one is illegal. Refugees are welcome here.