Dear Supporters
It is now less than a week until the government plan to deport up to 50 people to Jamaica.
They include people who came to the UK as small children, as young as 2 years old. The majority have British partners and children.
The government last year, ahead of their Christmas Covid deportation to Jamaica made an agreement not to deport those who came to the UK under age 12 but are now reneging on that. Branding people who have spent all their childhood and then adult life, done all their education in the UK, who have raised their own British born children here as foreign national criminals is disgraceful. Britain is their home.
As if it isn't bad enough to tear children and parents apart in such a cruel and brutal way, the detention centres have been denying children the opportunity to see their parent , apparently making up the rules as they go along with no consistency across detention centres. Some are told only one visitor is allowed, others that one adult and one child only can visit. I have spoken to a wife of one person detained to be deported to Zimbabwe who travelled from the North of England with her two children ,whose calls and emails to book an appointment were ignored, was told only she could visit.
Another man who has five children was told only his wife and one child could visit. How do you choose between 5 children and if you have travelled from afar what are you supposed to do about care for your other children?
This is a cruel and unacceptable punishment to children to deny them the chance to see their parent for the last time and say goodbye.
Thanks for the copies of responses you have received from your MPs. You can send these to Barac.info@gmail.com.
We have drafted a template letter you can use here;
http://blackactivistsrisingagainstcuts.blogspot.com/2021/07/take-action-against-home-office-summer.html?m=1
TUI have been found to provide aircraft for a disproportionate number of deportation flights: https://corporatewatch.org/the-two-sides-of-tui-crisis-hit-holiday-giant-turned-deportation-specialist/
They were also responsible for the mass deportation of the #Vietnam22 a couple of weeks ago.
So we are asking you to contact them and ask them to stop helping the home office and stop tearing families apart.
In this @TUIUK pinned tweet they say that summer holidays are back, find out where you can go.
https://twitter.com/TUIUK/status/1417854635117789189?s=19
Please post in the comments of the tweet.
Suggested tweet: @TUIUK Summer Holidays or Summer Nightmares? Stop helping @ukhomeoffice deport people, stop tearing families apart.
Use the hashtags #Jamaica50 #Zimbabwe150 #stoptheplane #Vietnam22
We also cannot forget that the governments of countries receiving these mass deportation flights are part of the problem.
Please tweet Prime Minister of Jamaica @AndrewHolnessJM
Ask him to #refusetheplane and ask why he is accepting those who came to the UK as children .
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Follow us on twitter @baracuk and on Instagram @baracukoriginal for updates and actions to take and participate in.
Thank you.
Regards
Zita Holbourne
National Chair BARAC UK