{"id":927,"date":"2005-01-23T23:01:22","date_gmt":"2005-01-23T22:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2005\/01\/23\/family_facing_deportation_split"},"modified":"2005-01-23T23:01:22","modified_gmt":"2005-01-23T22:01:22","slug":"family_facing_deportation_split","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2005\/01\/23\/family_facing_deportation_split","title":{"rendered":"Family facing deportation split"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got this report off an email list I subscribe to; this is really the sort of thing which makes me angry &#8211; a family is <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/england\/staffordshire\/4191533.stm\">being split up<\/a> because the husband&#8217;s asylum claim has been turned down, despite the fact that his wife and baby daughter are British citizens.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Gambian asylum seeker faces separation from his British wife and baby daughter after his application to stay in the UK was rejected.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Njie fled Gambia four years ago after taking part in protests against the government, and fears for his life if forced to return.<\/p>\n<p>He married his wife Vicky, from Little Chell, Stoke-on-Trent, 18 months ago and they have a baby daughter.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this, the Home Office has rejected his plea to remain in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>He now has only one route of appeal left before facing deportation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>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 &#8220;family values&#8221; slogans for political purposes).  We can look forward to more of this idiocy if Michael Howard (God forbid!) becomes Prime Minister.<\/p>\n<p>And perhaps the British immigration authorities see the Gambia as a peaceful country, with no human rights problems?  What about the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/africa\/4152775.stm\">murder of the journalist Deyda Hydara<\/a> in December 2004 by professional hit-men in a style similar to other critics of Yahya Jammeh&#8217;s government?  (I notice that the Hydara murder isn&#8217;t linked off the BBC report on Alex Njie&#8217;s asylum claim.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got this report off an email list I subscribe to; this is really the sort of thing which makes me angry &#8211; a family is being split up because the husband&#8217;s asylum claim&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-eX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}