This Monday (January 19) a Nigerian family who came to Ireland to try to build a better life for themselves are facing deportation on the orders of the British Home Office.
Comfort Adefowoju and her four children have spent the last two months in a draconian detention centre in England after their removal from their east Belfast home by state-employed racists.
If you want to show your support for the Adefowoju family and your disgust at the British government go to Belfast City Hall at 12.00 on Monday (January 19).
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3 comments:
Monday, January 19th ... what year?
What are the circumstances of the case? I'm assuming from the few facts that are given that it was an asylum case, was the case dealt with unfairly?
We need a bit of realism on this issue. Sinn Féin does not support an open door policy on this and we shouldn't automatically call every deportation racist. We should deal with each case on a case by case basis and not allow either our policy or our campaigning to be dictated by well meaning groups that do openly espouse an open door policy and therefore oppose all deportations in all circumstances.
Comfort Adefowoju fled what was a death sentence in Nigeria to come to Ireland. Since then she has played a very positive role in the community in which she has come to live in East Belfast. Her presence here should be an offence to no-one.
Sinn Féin's "open door" policy only changed because it wasn't a vote winner. It's time for some principles on this. No-one can decide who has the right to live and work here (unless you're a racist, quasi-fascist arsehole like Michael McDowell). Whether here for 4 years, 400 years or 4,000 years, we're all immigrants to this country.
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