her three year old daughter.
and Asian families this year.
Mrs Halal's deportation is another gloomy example of values which place harsh racist rules first, decent family life and citizenship nowhere.
Ayse Halal, a 32 year old Cypriot-born missed British citizenship by an unfortunate quirk of fate - because her parents forgot to register her while she was under 18, after the family. emigrated Cyprus in 1971.
Both her sons, aged four and eight, are British by birth. Her brother has nao British citizenship since 1976, and both her Parcus nave been british citizens since 1947.
Indeed her father served in the British army in Cyprus for 25 years.
All this counted for noting Interviewed on BBC Waddington TV about her deportation. ne proceeded on mono logue about the rules, ignoring the interviewer's attempted interiections Ilke 'but aren't splitting this family?' and 'isn't this a case for compassion?'. immigration matters, wished an unhappy new year to Ayse Halal and her family by deporting her and Waddington's implementation of immigration laws is ruthless and relentless. And he has similar plans for unhappiness for thousands of other black, for Leyton splitting her family by not taking her sons with her.
What a lie! The boys are British and have lived in Britain all their lives It is the Home Office under the Tories which has divided this family — as it did with Afia Begum, for whom toughi, countless others in recent years After the last minute appeal to Mrs Thatcher by Ayse's MP, John Silkin which met with a predic table (non response Mrs Halal her of the country just as the South African athlete Zola Budd arrived. Mrs Hala commented: "If I'd been a runner rather than mother, I'd have been allowed to stay.
This month should see the publication of a critical Commission for Racial Equality report on immigration policies. It was started after vaginal exwomen had begun Heathrow in 1979 The report has been long delayed. , because the government tried to stop it The Home Office has forced parts of at to be rewritten Its central conclusion is that current policy causes distress and humiliation to black people who have legal rights to live in Britain, and it does serious This has long been ap. parent even to the Tory government.
But they have other oblike appeasing the racist right wingers : in their own The government is also appealing to what it knows is ignorant racism in the community, instead of combatting it The Tories of course have an eye to what they think will be their politica advantage such policy. However the battle inhole against this racis the community as will be incessant and increasing until, along with its promoter appeasers, it is swept away.
must give higher profile to the fight against immigration naLUllallt' alls families like together in this coumery. Halal's remain
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AS 1985 BEGINS, Tory racism rolls on. David Waddington, Home Office minister responsible for