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We must make the positive case for immigration
We need to openly reject the Tories’ politics of fear over migration, as well as laying the blame for low wages and poor services with the real culprits — the greedy rich, writes JEREMY CORBYN MP

GULCIN OZDEMIR’S parents arrived in Islington in the 1990s. Like thousands of other Kurdish people, they had fled conflict and persecution in Turkey.

Risking their lives to travel across Europe, they came to Britain in the hope of securing a happier and safer life. But their struggle for sanctuary was far from over.

Not long after their arrival, immigration officials threatened to send them back home — a home defined by statelessness and oppression.

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