Step 1: Select a Peer to email
Copy the email above into your email system.
Step 2: Write your email
For writing to members of the House of Lords it is important to write an email in your own words.
This is more impactful as it shows Peers how much this issue matters to you.
Below is some background information (available as a PDF in more detail here) to help you with the details of the Bill.
However, the most important part of the email is your own words and your own reasons for contacting the recipient.
You are emailing them, asking that they support safe routes for refugees in the Nationality and Borders Bill because you care about this issue and want them to as well. So your own reasons for being supportive of refugees is the most important message you can send.
Background:
Twenty-seven people tragically lost their lives attempting to cross the Channel a couple of months ago – the greatest loss of life in years.
More and more people are risking the dangerous journey across the Channel in flimsy boats to try reach sanctuary here since the Government closed safe routes to the UK for refugees.
In the last 2 years, the Government ended the Dubs scheme for unaccompanied refugee children in Europe and refused to replace the EU’s Dublin III Regulation, which allowed for family reunion.
The Government’s Nationality and Borders Bill will do nothing to break the business model of smugglers nor prevent dangerous Channel crossings. It will however make the lives of many who have fled war and persecution a misery.
Safe Passage recommendations:
Support the opening of a new safe route to the UK for refugees with family here.
The removal of the EU’s Dublin III Regulation, which allowed for family reunion, was devastating to children and separated families seeking asylum and reunification with their loved ones.
Support the opening of a new relocation scheme for unaccompanied children in Europe.
The Dubs scheme, which was closed by the Government, demonstrated the potential of a new route to protection for unaccompanied child refugees and provided safety to many children who would have otherwise made dangerous journeys to Britain.
Oppose Clause 11 which would punish and penalise refugees for how they had to travel to reach sanctuary in the UK.
These plans seek to establish an inhumane asylum system that differentiates and discriminates against refugees and would violate the UK’s obligations under international refugee and human rights law.
Step 3: Send the email
Please email campaigns@safepassage.org.uk with who you’ve contacted so we know that you’ve sent the email and who to.
When the member of the House of Lords responds, please let us know by sending any responses to campaigns@safepassage.org.uk.
If you accidentally forget the Peer’s contact details. You can look them up here.
If you would like, you can email more than one member. However, make sure to send each email individually, ideally with different language and a different subject line.