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THE government resumed illegal deportations of asylum-seekers on chartered flights last night after the Home Office ordered people to be sent to countries they did not come from.
Migrant support service the Unity Centre sounded the alarm after private charter jet company Titan Airways was scheduled to deport dozens of migrants on a late-night flight from Stansted airport.
According to the Unity Centre, at least two of the people marked for deportation would be sent to African countries they have no connection to and no means of leaving.
DIANE ABBOTT warns that Shabana Mahmood’s draconian asylum proposals fuel racist scapegoating and risk demoralising Labour’s base – potentially paving the way for Farage to No 10
Britain’s proud asylum history, from sheltering the Kindertransport escaping Hitler to Basque children fleeing fascist Spain, required tireless campaigning against persistent opposition — and it’s up to all of us to do our part today, writes SABINA PRICE