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19 Oct, 4 tweets, 1 min read
"Migrants are a burden on the taxpayer, due to any money over and above the massive profits made by exorbitant charges on them going towards detaining and preventing other migrants" is a weapon's grade level obscene excuse for charging yet more fees for children. #BordersBill
Oh, and now we're onto arguing that as "citizenship is not necessary", it's absolutely fine to just provide limited leave to remain for children. This just puts more stress and trauma and leaves them in a precarious position.
Why am I even bothering to have this on in the background? Could have predicted word for word the excuses from the Home Office.
I love @Stuart_McDonald. He is so good at holding the Home Office to account and completely blowing their arguments out of the water. Really hammering on the need for a fee waver for children's, including those in care, citizenship.

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Ding ding ding, "First safe country" brought up in Nationality and Borders Bill Committee, everyone drink. Doesn't exist in international law, never has existed in international law.
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The #bordersbill is back being discussed this week. Not only does it break multiple laws, but is also puts people's lives at risk. As shown below, child trafficking survivors are already being effectively abandoned by the Home Office. This risks making it worse. 1/
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Good thread on flaws with the regular "remove anonymity from social media" argument. We absolutely need better safeguards on social media, however removing anonymity isn't just impractical, it also risks quite a number of very dangerous negative effects. 1/
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Language use is important. When discussing asylum seekers and refugees it becomes even more so. It doesn't matter if you have good intentions, the wrong choice of language can have disastrous repercussions, and this piece is littered with wrong choices. 1/
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