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It’s great to hear that the Home office is going to be more ‘compassionate and outward-looking’. @pritipatel, here are a number of issues that you can start with. Thread
Release Osime Brown to his family in the UK - Learn from Windrush and don’t deport an autistic man to a Jamaica where he has no links or support network https://www.voice-online.co.uk/news/uk-news/2020/03/05/family-of-autistic-man-appeal-his-deportation-to-jamaica/
On Windrush, don’t make any of the people whose lives your department damaged wait any longer for compensation. 13 people have died waiting for answers & only 10% of cases have been paid out. 1000+ people are waiting and it’d be compassionate to fix this https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/windrush-compensation-slow-victims-dying-22377944
Help Heyam get reunited with her daughters. She has terminal cancer, and the doctors gave her three months. https://www.thenational.scot/news/18592260.syrian-refugees-pleas-family-reunion/
Lift No Recourse to Public Funds visa conditions so that 8-year-olds don’t have to take your department to court to have access to food during a pandemic. Compassion is everyone having equal & fair access to the social safety net + healthcare and housing! https://www.unity-project.org.uk/suspend-nrpf
Find community-based alternatives to detention and immediately stop detaining people - Also, don’t detain people for 568 days… https://twitter.com/BIDdetention/status/1285604442180595712
Stop weaponising immigration and actively trying to turn neighbours against each other for political ends - be part of bringing communities together rather than dividing them https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/labour-immigration-conservatives-targeted-facebook-ads-a9630796.html
These are not isolated cases or mistakes, but part of a culture of malice, disbelief and cruelty against people of colour, migrants, refugees, and others that make up our communities. Compassion is what is needed - I’m so glad you’re with me.
