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.
