Won’t somebody think of the children?
Not wishing to distract from all the dancing in the street caused by the Chancellor’s rescue plan, here’s another example of New Labour generosity that you might have missed.
Twins: Ziyad and Bahabga Zighem aged 6 years 3 months, Rahima 4 years and 4 months, Hani 3 years and 6 months, and Zinedine 2 years and 3 months, have spent the last 29 days in Immigration detention @ Yarl’s Wood IRC and are still there today.
These five children are not seeking asylum nor are they migrants, they were all born in the UK, denied the *parentage of the country they were born in, by deliberate, discriminatory legislation in the ‘British Nationality Act 1981′ (came into force 1982).
Where’s the moral panic? Where are the tens of thousands of outraged phonecalls, emails and texts crying out at this terrible scandal? Isn’t there someone we can lynch? I’ve scoured the Daily Mail’s website and there’s no mention of the ordeal these children are being put through.
New Labour, need we be reminded, ‘unfurled its old battle banner for social justice’ this week.
Posted on November 25th, 2008 at 6:31 pm
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[...] So should you feel the urge to raise the matter of our country imprisoning children and toddlers because of allegations made against their father without any proof or due process please contact your representatives about the Zighem Family from Bradford currently held in Yarl’s Wood Detention Centre with their mother Akila Lazazi & their father Mestah Zighem held in Harmondsworth. (ht2 Chicken Yoghurt) [...]