What a cold, miserable country we have been made to look today by Home Office officialdom. With Yashika Bageerathi deported back to Mauritius, the government can congratulate itself on a job well done: Britain is finally free of a model 19-year-old A-level student whose studies have now been trashed. Aspiring young mathematicians in Enfield no longer have to suffer the imposition of the tutoring and coaching she has been volunteering to do in her spare time. She has been dra...gged from the loving care of her mother, whose case is being held separately. Let the slow handclap commence. Owen Jones argues that, for all the tragedy of this case, in humanising Yashikas story, campaigners have shown how we might overcome the cynicism of the anti-immigration lobby: theguardian/commentisfree/2014/apr/03/shocking-story-yashika-bageerathi-deportation-immigration?CMP=fb_gu
Posted on: Thu, 03 Apr 2014 12:06:07 +0000
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