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Against the Deportation of Irish Children
Dear friend,
On behalf of CADIC – the Coalition Against Deportation
of Irish Children – we write to elicit your support
in publicly opposing the move by the Minister of Justice to
deport migrant families of Irish citizen children.
We know that some people from among the 1,100 who have already
received letters from the Department of Justice have been
deported and that others have the threat of deportation hanging.
These deportations come in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling
of January 2003 and the subsequent abolition, by the Minister
of Justice, on 19 February 2003 of the procedure entitling
the families of Irish citizen children to lawfully apply for
residency in Ireland.
We feel there is an urgent need to make representations to
the Minister asking him to regularise the residency rights
of the 11,000 migrant parents of Irish citizen children, who
are now candidates for deportation. We already have hundreds
of signatures, headed by Mary Robinson and endorsed by several
political parties and trades unions.
We ask you to read the attached
model letter and, if you support its sentiments,
sign your name and affiliation and either return to address
listed below or add your signature and return by email to cadic@eircom.net.
You can also sign the petition online at
http://www.PetitionOnline.com/dric1954/petition.html
Thanking you on behalf of CADIC,
Ronit Lentin
Chairperson
Coalition Against the Deportation of Irish Children
C/o Irish Council for Civil Liberties
Dominick Court
40 - 41 Lower Dominick Street
Dublin 1
Dr Ronit Lentin
Course coordinator,
MPhil in Ethnic and Racial Studies,
Department
of Sociology, University of Dublin
Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland.
Tel: 353 1 6082766. Fax: 353 1 6771300.
rlentin@tcd.ie
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