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Friday 17 September 2010

Could the Pope meet with Theresa May?

Pope Benedict has arrived in London. Could he meet and pray with Theresa May, the Home Secretary in order to rebuild the confidence that it needed in the asylum system. There are too many politically motivated false prophets of doom in the Home Office. Because since 2006, 12 impartial commissioners conducted an independent, nationwide review of the UK`s asylum system.
 The Independent Asylum Commission ( IAC) spent two years gathering testimony from asylum seekers and so called failed asylum seekers and the public, taking evidence from experts and engaging in dialogue with the authorities.
 From the field, the UK Border Agency agrees with the IAC`s five principles for rebuilding confidence in the whole asylum system. According to theses principles, people fleeing persecution should be able to find sanctuary in safe countries like the UK. But the Home Office is still sending genuine asylum seekers back to where they flet longtime ago to come and seek sanctuary in the UK.
More are kept without judgement in immigration detention centre around the country. Colnbrook Immigration removal and detention centre is one of the worst place where failed asylum seekers are kept for ages without receive any proper and impartial trail. And 95% of staff working in these immigration reception, detention and removal centre ar all former asylum seekers, illegal immigrants  who have been granted any kind of leave to remain in the country and allowed to work..,
 Most of them are from India, Pakistan, Jamaica, Nigeria, China, Russia, Poland, and only less than 2.5% are british nationals.

The UK should have a fair and effective decision-making body that takes pride in giving sanctuary to those who need it and denies it to those who do not.
 But in reality a journalism investigation conducted my an nuj member found out that there are more here who do not need sanctuary who have been given and for that, the Home Office is always pride to say that, they do not comment on individual case when approached for comment and information.
 Hope that the Pope will receive Theresa May and discuss the issue of improving the UK asylum system. It`s still not easy for an asylum seeker to visit a friend asylum seeker who has been detained in the Home Office housing facilities at Colnbrook or Brook House.
You need to show an identification such as a driven licence or a passport. And they ( Home Office) do know that asylum seekers do not have passport and driven licence and even do not pay council tax or any bill while still in the asylum system.
 So why the Home Office has to put these restrictions to a asylum seekers who want to visit their allien friends in detention? Something has to be done in order to facilitate visit to these horrible places where asylum seekers in short term housing facilities use to take their life by committing suicide....



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