Family facing deportation split

I got this report off an email list I subscribe to; this is really the sort of thing which makes me angry – a family is being split up because the husband’s asylum claim has been turned down, despite the fact that his wife and baby daughter are British citizens.

A Gambian asylum seeker faces separation from his British wife and baby daughter after his application to stay in the UK was rejected.

Alex Njie fled Gambia four years ago after taking part in protests against the government, and fears for his life if forced to return.

He married his wife Vicky, from Little Chell, Stoke-on-Trent, 18 months ago and they have a baby daughter.

Despite this, the Home Office has rejected his plea to remain in the UK.

He now has only one route of appeal left before facing deportation.

Of course, now that this man has a British wife and daughter, his asylum claim should no longer be an issue. But this is Britain, with a government cowering from the gutter money-media, which has no respect for the family (even though they may use “family values” slogans for political purposes). We can look forward to more of this idiocy if Michael Howard (God forbid!) becomes Prime Minister.

And perhaps the British immigration authorities see the Gambia as a peaceful country, with no human rights problems? What about the murder of the journalist Deyda Hydara in December 2004 by professional hit-men in a style similar to other critics of Yahya Jammeh’s government? (I notice that the Hydara murder isn’t linked off the BBC report on Alex Njie’s asylum claim.)