How can this be right! Offshoring people to Rwanda. What you can do: petitions to sign, letter to your MP, demonstrations:
This post is being updated with reports of atrocities around the army camp accommodation, and other Home Office plans to accommodate people in new sites: including offshoring in Rwanda (revealed April 2022). How low will this Government stoop?There are petitions to sign below.
Updated 20 May 2022: Rwanda:
Information on the Care4Calais website for people at risk, two leaflets with information in various languages, phone numbers – please pass the information on: https://care4calais.org/stop-rwanda/
Guardian: Far-right threat feared at huge base for asylum seekers in North Yorkshire village
Nicola David, chair of Ripon City of Sanctuary and a member of the Linton-on-Ouse action group, said to Home Office officials at the meeting: “You treat asylum seekers like animals, like pawns in your political game.”
A senior police chief has admitted officers are consulting with counter-terrorism experts about threats from the far right at a military base in North Yorkshire where the Home Office is planning to house 1,500 asylum seekers.
On Thursday night a meeting of residents in the small village of Linton-on-Ouse was told that the first people were due to move in in less than two weeks. The chief inspector for Hambleton and Richmondshire, David Hunter, also acknowledged at the meeting that police were being assisted with advice from Counter-Terrorism North East to prepare for the threat of far-right activity which could put the asylum seekers at risk.
Home Office officials, along with their sub-contractors Serco who will be managing the accommodation, attended the meeting of Linton Parish council to answer questions about the plans from concerned villagers and campaigners. Approximately 10 far-right protesters gathered outside but were barred from entry by police.
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