NEWS: We've been taking referrals for the #Jamaica50 mass deportation for the past few days. People who have been in the UK for 20 or 30 + years or most of their lives. People who came to the UK as toddlers, young children or teenagers & have no links to Jamaica...
2/ Most have a non-violent, drugs-related or one-off conviction. Nearly all have been living in the community for several years and in most cases raising their children and playing an active and important role in their lives. As with other flights the @ukhomeoffice is trying to
3/ deport people whose children would then have to grow up in care as a result. The approach of the Government in these cases borders on the sociopathic. But in every case, we see near total disregard for the rights of British & British resident children who will be forcibly
4/ separated from a parent for the rest of their childhood. We hear horror stories of children self-harming, bed-wetting & withdrawing over the planned deportation of a parent. One child assessed after their Dad was deported was found to be suffering from PTSD. How can it really
5/ be in the public interest to rip loving parents from their children, forcing partners that remain in the UK to take several jobs or to go onto benefits to survive? Without exception, the partners we speak to are key workers, e.g. nursery workers, supermarket workers, carers,
6/ & nurses, who have been on the frontline in the #COVID pandemic, helping to keep us all safe. And this is how they are repaid. Our deportation system is inhumane and deeply damaging to our society. How many thousands of families has @pritipatel broken up? Does she even know?
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