Jon Bright (London, OK): This story comes in via the Independent and this is plymouth:
A 14-year-old boy with sickle cell anaemia has become the latest in a string of failed asylum-seekers to be scheduled for removal from the UK despite the risks to his health if he returns to his home country, Nigeria.
According the Indie, this follows on from the case of Ama Sumani, a cancer sufferer sent back to Ghana this month, where she will not be able to receive the treatment she needs. They continue:
Defending Ms Sumani's deportation, Lin Homer, chief executive of the Border and Immigration Agency, told MPs that the Home Office sent home "hundreds" of such people each year.
Does she really mean we send hundreds of people with serious diseases to places where they can't receive treatment every year? Does she really see that as something positive?
I'm relatively sceptical about the merits of facebook campaigns, but this one seems to actually connect up to some action. It's been formed, according to its blurb, by a group of teenagers who are friends with Emmanuel, and who were apparently told, by someone they charitably leave nameless, “to get back to [their] Playstations and stop playing politics.” Whilst playing their politics, they have already secured a three week stay of deportation for Emmanuel, and hope that some media coverage might help them get more. Good luck to them.
