Dear Supporter

Thank you - the pressure is mounting, almost 260000 signatures, more international press coverage and actions by lots of different groups and individuals on social media.

The Mayor of London has called for the deportations to be stopped and  so have other politicians in the Labour Party and the SNP. Thank you for writing to your MPs and sharing their responses.

We have heard from some more people booked on next week's flight. One man has 9 children, 7 with his current partner,  who are all minors and his youngest child is just one week old.  How is his partner supposed to look after 7 children including a new born baby without him? 

The Home Office also want to deport someone on next week's flight to Jamaica  who has been in the UK since the age of seventeen and who  is not even from Jamaica. They were born there but only stayed there for the first few months of their life as a baby, yet the Home Office are insisting this is where they are deported to when they don't know anybody there and have no links. Imagine if your mother was on holiday in Spain for example when pregnant, went into labour early, gave birth there then returned home and 40 years later you are told you are going to be deported there.

We have to keep up the pressure on the British Government but also on those who are complicit with this and other deportations like it. 

We don't know definitely which airline will be operating this flight but we do know that it is usually Titan Airways who run these flights. So an action you can take is to contact Titan Airways and ask them if they are operating the deportation flight and that they stop participating in deportations. 

On twitter they are @TitanAirways 

You can call them on 01279680616 and email them charter@titan-airways.co.uk

Because these are passenger flights they must have commercial not private pilots flying them  so another action is to politely  call on the trade union for pilots BALPA to ask their members not to pilot next week's flight or any other deportation flights.

@BALPApilots on twitter.

Andrew Holness the Prime Minister of Jamaica tweeted a video of himself announcing a covid curfew in Jamaica yesterday so please respond to the tweet  and ask him why he is allowing up to 50 people to be deported to Jamaica who will not have been protected from coronavirus during detention , transfer and deportation. https://twitter.com/AndrewHolnessJM/status/1331406438493777924?s=19

Please use the hashtags #Jamaica50 and #enddeportations #stoptheplane

Thanks and Regards

Zita 

On behalf of BARAC UK and BAME Lawyers for Justice