Lord Dubs and Joely Richardson attend a Citizens UK event in October 2016 outside the Home Office in London, to welcome the arrival of the first child refugees as the Calais 'jungle' demolition begins
CAMPAIGNERS’ challenge to the Tory cap on the number of unaccompanied child refugees allowed into Britain opened at the Court of Appeal today.
Help Refugees is fighting the Home Office decision to limit the number of children allowed to seek asylum in Britain under the Dubs amendment, named after Labour peer Alf Dubs, who came to Britain with the Kindertransport in 1939.
In November, the High Court threw out the charity’s attempt to force the Home Office to abandon the cap and reopen its “defective” consultation.
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
Calls have been made for the return to Venezuela of a two-year-old girl currently being held in the US, after being separated from her family by immigration officials, reports SUSAN GREY
A recent Immigration Summit heard from Lord Alf Dubs, who fled the Nazis to Britain as a child. JAYDEE SEAFORTH reports on his message that we need to increase public empathy with desperate people seeking asylum