Zita Holbourne is the co-founder and national chair of BARAC UK and a human rights campaigner-shared from Zita Holbourne gal-dem website
The deportation process itself is brutal. Imagine:
You’re shaken awake in the middle of the night in your holding cell.
Guards tell you there’s a change of plan, you’re being taken for deportation today.
Your mobile phone is snatched out of your hands; you’re not allowed to make that precious last call to your loved ones to say “Goodbye” or “I love you”. You cannot reach your legal representatives.
You’re cuffed to an usher and forced onto a minibus, to be driven to an airfield hundreds of miles away.
In one final act of cruelty, when you’ve been bundled onto a plane, you’re shackled, from the waist down and chained to two security guards.
This is how the UK government rips people from the only lives they’ve ever known – as dehumanised prisoners.
Some of those targeted for deportation have been; criminalised by virtue of their immigration status,
others are going through appeals
and those who have been sentenced criminally now receive a triple punishment of prison, detention, and deportation.
Here are some things that you can do. They will only take a few minutes but will help to keep the pressure up to stop these deportations.
Sign our petition to stop the deportations here
Tweet @UKHomeOffice and call on them to cancel the flight. Use the hashtag #Jamaica50
Follow @baracuk on Twitter. RT our tweets and share the news reports there – look out for a Twitter storm on Saturday 28 December
Write to your MP calling on them to write to the Home Secretary urgently – you can use gal-dem’s email template found here (please send any responses you receive to barac.info@gmail.com).
If you or someone you know is impacted or at risk, urge them to get legal advice straight away – we can recommend lawyers if needed.
Extracts are taken from the dem-gal website
Zita Holbourne is the co-founder and national chair of BARAC UK and a human rights campaigner
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