As Home Secretary, Mr Javid should know better than to pre-judge someone’s right to asylum. And he should know better than to call this a crisis. 539 people attempted to travel to the UK by boat last year, compared to 822 refugees who landed in the Greek islands in just one week in December.
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“Safe Passage have consistently called on the government to help these children find stability and begin rebuilding their lives by granting them secure status in the UK. Whilst we welcome today’s announcement, we are extremely concerned that it has been limited to children brought to the UK as part of the Calais camp clearances.
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The Court of Appeal has today ruled that the government misled the High Court over its decision to refuse child refugees who had been in Calais the right to join their families in the UK
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Safe Passage brought this case against the Home Office to challenge the so-called ‘expedited process’ that the Home Office conducted in Calais in the days leading up to the Jungle’s demolition in October 2016.
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I lost my brother-in-law, Masud, in Calais in December 2015. Masud was 15 years old. He had been living in the ‘Jungle’ for three months, and was hoping to join me and my wife– his older sister – in London. Instead, he died.
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We welcome the UK-France agreement, announced today, to speed-up family reunion for refugees in Calais with family in Britain.
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“riot police routinely use pepper spray on child and adult migrants while they are sleeping or in other circumstances in which they pose no threat; regularly spray or confiscate sleeping bags, blankets, and clothing; and sometimes use pepper spray on migrants’ food and water.”
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