This week 2 TCAR families who have both been living in Newcastle for over 5 years were facing deportation. Joy and her daughter had received notification that they would be deported to Jamaica on Wednesday 14th March, despite a pending citizenship claim by her daughter, and Nurhayet and her family, held in Yarls Wood detention centre, had received fresh removal directions for Thursday 15th March, despite their fresh claim. After a massive campaign to the press, local MPs and the Home Office, and the second emergency demonstration outside Government Offices North East in a week, both families are for the time being out of danger.
Joy received more national and local press coverage today, speaking on the BBC Breakfast programme and appearing in the following articles (these are better politically than yesterdays, with the Independent article pointing to the wider struggle against deportations, and the second one containing quite radical statements by the headteacher of Joy's daughter's school):
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article2355958.ece
http://icnewcastle.icnetwork.co.uk/chroniclelive/eveningchronicle/tm_method=full%26objectid=18751753%26siteid=50081-name_page.html
http://icnewcastle.icnetwork.co.uk/journallive/thejournal/tm_headline=soldiers%2D-mother-can-stay-%2D-for-now%26method=full%26objectid=18749952%26siteid=50081-name_page.html
http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/topstories/display.var.1257871.0.reprieve_for_deportation_fight_mother.php
Joy has reassured supporters that just because she is out of immediate danger, she isn't going anywhere, and will continue the struggle for EVERYBODY to stay.
At Yarls Wood, Nurhayet and the rest of the Erdogan family have tonight had the second removal order lifted. Had it gone ahead it would have been a totally illegal deportation, even by Britain's racist laws, as they have a fresh claim in process. The Erdogans are now keen to get back to Tyneside, to their home, and to their comrades in TCAR.
TOGETHER WE ARE STRONGER!
TOGETHER WE CAN WIN!
Don't just get angry, get active! Join TCAR!
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article2355958.ece http://icnewcastle.icnetwork.co.uk/chroniclelive/eveningchronicle/tm_method=full%26objectid=18751753%26siteid=50081-name_page.html http://icnewcastle.icnetwork.co.uk/journallive/thejournal/tm_headline=soldiers%2D-mother-can-stay-%2D-for-now%26method=full%26objectid=18749952%26siteid=50081-name_page.html http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/topstories/display.var.1257871.0.reprieve_for_deportation_fight_mother.php Joy has reassured supporters that just because she is out of immediate danger, she isn't going anywhere, and will continue the struggle for EVERYBODY to stay.
At Yarls Wood, Nurhayet and the rest of the Erdogan family have tonight had the second removal order lifted. Had it gone ahead it would have been a totally illegal deportation, even by Britain's racist laws, as they have a fresh claim in process. The Erdogans are now keen to get back to Tyneside, to their home, and to their comrades in TCAR.
TOGETHER WE ARE STRONGER!
TOGETHER WE CAN WIN!
Don't just get angry, get active! Join TCAR!
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