| Petition
against the 2004 Asylum bill
Petition your friends, workmates, neighbours, students at your school
or college and show the Home Secretary the opposition to his plans.
The threat to remove asylum seekers' children if they refuse repatriation
is among the proposals in the new asylum bill. If it becomes law, these
proposals will significantly worsen the already terrible situation facing
asylum seekers, undermine international conventions on asylum, and give
unprecedented and unchecked powers to the Home Secretary to make life
and death decisions.
The Committee to Defend Asylum Seekers supported by Asylum Aid are circulating
a petition to 'Stop the 2004 Asylum Bill'.
The text
of the petition is below and the petition itself can be down loaded as
a PDF file 'Stop the Bill PDF'
Stop
the 2004 Asylum Bill petition
* We the undersigned are opposed to proposals which would:
* See asylum seekers being threatened with the removal of their children
if they refuse repatriation
* Jail asylum seekers who arrive in the UK without documents
* Exclude our courts from exercising their constitutional function of
overseeing the Home Secretary’s decisions re asylum seekers
* Reduce drastically legal aid, and therefore, legal representation, to
those seeking asylum
* Tag asylum seekers
* Extend the Home Secretary’s powers to remove asylum seekers without
giving any consideration to their asylum claim.
If they become law, these proposals will worsen significantly the already
terrible situation facing asylum seekers, undermine international conventions
on asylum, and give unprecedented and unchecked powers to the Home Secretary
to make life and death
decisions.
The claim that they will combat an increasingly vocal far right agenda
is fallacious. The proposals simply adopt that agenda, and can only encourage
those that speak to it.
Moreover, this response to the far right can only encourage the targeting
of other vulnerable minorities in our community.
We demand the Home Secretary withdraws the above proposals and begins
to challenge the anti-immigration agenda rather than encourage it.
This petition is supported by Asylum Aid
Return to CDAS
BCM Box 4289
London WC1X 3XX
Contact CDAS, 07941 566183
info@defend-asylum.org
http://www.defend-asylum.org/
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