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@Care4Calais
Apr 23, 2019 • 6 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
The @Independent has released an informative report about the 'surge in child refugees in Calais as conditions reach ‘breaking point’': independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…
This thread is from our team on the ground, who have daily contact with the many child #refugees at #Calais.
(thread contd) Today I spoke with a 14 year old boy who arrived in Calais a week ago. He was crying & asked me when he would get to see his brother in the UK.
(thread contd) He asked: "Madam it took so long to get here & the way was hard. I have answered every question your friends asked me. When can I go?" He was referring to the French volunteer legal team who will help with his claim. ‘I don’t like it here. My brother is waiting.’
(thread contd) How do I tell him it may be months, or even more than a year?
I also spoke to his brother in the UK. He said ‘Please help us. I am only 19 & I don’t understand the law. I am working every day to make a home for my brother. Please, please can you help him?’
(thread contd) What do I tell these kids? They leave countries torn apart by wars & places where people are persecuted in the belief that the UK is different - that the UK is a beacon of human rights and democracy.
(thread contd) So how do I explain that, while the law exists to reunite them & the process has been created, the political will on the part of our government is simply not there? There is no excuse for not bringing more child refugees to the UK under the #DubsAmendment.

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Nov 9, 2023
The Marine Accident Investigation Branch report on the mass drowning of refugees in the Channel in November 2021 blames an inexperienced, under-resourced UK Coastguard, poor weather and poor coordination with the French search-and-rescue team.

It isn't good enough. 🧵
This report does not provide answers to the fundamental question of why the UK authorities failed the desperate people on board this boat who asked for help.
And it doesn’t explain why they were left at sea for over 12 hours, undetected by UK and French authorities but found by a fishing boat the next day.

Saying the rescue was hampered by "poor visibility" or there was more than one boat in distress doesn’t cut it.
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Aug 9, 2023
Yesterday morning, as the arguments about the Bibby Stockholm raged in the UK, wave after wave of police descended on the largest refugee site in northern France. 🧵
Having given little warning, they strode though the side forcing men, women and children to flee their tents, leaving most of their belongings behind.
Some boarded waiting buses to be ferried to other sites. Others just melted away. Left behind in the mud were the rags and tatters of what had been a makeshift of community, a group of people with at least a little shelter and the will to help each other.
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Feb 25, 2023
Thoughts on today's protests: a 🧵

If you don’t think refugees should be in hotels, tell the government to process their claims.

If you love your country, treat those less fortunate with dignity and respect. It’s not hard.
Refugees don’t want to be in hotels. They want to work and contribute to our society. If their claims were processed they could do this and wouldn’t cost us a penny.

They would be paying taxes instead.

These decisions are not up to refugees; they don’t have a choice.
If you really want to make a difference lobby our politicians. Write to them; go to see your MP. We do have the power to help refugees and look after the homeless too.

Don’t be told otherwise.

This is the government’s job.
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Dec 14, 2022
Today's tragedy in the English Channel raises serious questions about what can be done to prevent more similar deaths. We need to understand what happened, and why: a 🧵
Sometime before 3am this morning, somewhere out on the black, freezing-cold waters of the English Channel, a light dinghy carrying around 50 men, women and children began to sink. Losing air, one side had buckled and, with water coming in, the soft base was sinking into the sea.
People were screaming for help. It is possible that some had already fallen into the sea.

At around 3am, people on the boat saw the lights of a fishing boat approach them and pull alongside. From above, the crew threw down ropes and, one by one, hauled them to safety.
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Dec 14, 2022
There are no words to express our horror and grief at today’s tragedy. A full year on from 32 people losing their lives in the Channel, our Government has done nothing to prevent further deaths and so has failed both the refugees who need our help and our country.
Three weeks ago we stood in solidarity with the relatives of those 32 souls and felt their undiminished grief. It is unbearable to think that more families will now suffer the same pain.
Both then and now, these deaths are wholly unnecessary and preventable. By failing to act, our government has blood on their hands.
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Dec 13, 2022
It is both appalling and grotesque that our government is basing policies that should protect the lives of vulnerable people on misinformation and misdirection.

news.sky.com/story/amp/rish…
Let's be clear. A person’s right to asylum is based on the level of danger they are escaping from and does not depend on how they travel to the place where they are seeking sanctuary.
The majority of people we work with in Calais come from places like Sudan, Afghanistan, Syria and Iran; countries that have asylum acceptance rates that are as high as 98% per recently released Home Office asylum statistics.
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