Thread by @jdpoc

THIS DAY in 1933, a refugee arrived at #Dover with a patchy work history and no ties to this country, fleeing oppression from the #Nazi regime who had burned his books and turned his home into a #Nazi Youth Centre.

The UK Authorities misplaced his papers.

His landing card - his only documentation at the time - was lost and only rediscovered in 2011.

The Daily Mail urged readers to boycott his lectures raising money for other refugees from the #Nazi regime.

Apparently he wasn't good enough, and didn't qualify for refugee status, him being only a Nobel Prize winning world-acclaimed scientist and renowned Professor.

Back then, we said no to allowing him refugee status.

And despite Britain being his first choice to teach and work, we lost the genius of Albert Einstein to America.

@jdpoc This is what an overtly racist, nationalist, islamophobic and overzealous immigration policy does.

It turns away the future geniuses, the future entrepreneurs, future business leaders, the teachers, doctors and nurses …

@jdpoc … the future batsmen that will score the series winning 100 against Australia in the Ashes, the future footballer who will score the winning goal in a World Cup final for England ..,

@jdpoc … And tens of thousands of other people who just want to come here to live, to work, to pay their taxes, to make a life for themselves, and to contribute to society … in a way that most people who are anti-immigration seem rather unwilling to do.

@jdpoc That illness that your grandchild will have in 20, 30 or 40 years time? Incurable. That research scientist who would’ve found the cure in time? Drowned in the English Channel. That nurse who would’ve cared for him or her? Refused a visa.