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Residents gathered today outside Sheffield\u2019s Home Office to show their disappointment in the UK\u2019s uptick in deportations of asylum seekers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The focus of the demonstration was to show the state of asylum seekers in the UK with the new deportation policy<\/a> under the Labour government, said Melinda Mo Martinez from City of Sanctuary, Sheffield. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The policy, introduced by Keir Starmer\u2019s government since coming to power, says that \u201cforeign criminals and immigration offenders\u201d will be sent back to their home countries, and not Rwanda, unlike the Conservative government\u2019s policy<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She said: \u201cFor me and my organisation, the most important thing is to show that behind all the data, they [asylum seekers] are human beings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is not about Black, Brown and Asian people against White people, this is about fascists against our community.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She said that the larger community in Sheffield also feels like asylum seekers across the UK are being treated like second-class citizens, referring specifically to their allowance: \u00a349.18 per person per week,<\/a> at a time when the average cost of groceries in the UK is upwards of \u00a350 per week<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manuchehr, a spokesperson for the South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group<\/a> (SYMAAG), said that he feels deportations have increased after the Labour government was elected to power.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He referred specifically to the Labour government scrapping the Conservative government\u2019s Rwanda charter flights, that violated international law and human rights, for a policy where \u201cinnocent and vulnerable asylum seekers are being sent back home to dictatorial regimes.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said that the UK should divest from nations in dispute, referring specifically to Israel, Afghanistan and Iraq, and instead invest back in asylum seekers that are escaping persecution in their home countries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Megan, who is involved in activism around the city, attended the demonstration because she felt the government has created a hostile environment towards asylum seekers across the country to distract the public from their own failings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She said: \u201cIt feels like they\u2019re fueling the far-right, it doesn\u2019t even feel like they\u2019re just pandering to them anymore. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s a coincidence that his [Keir Starmer\u2019s] policies have grown increasingly more hostile.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The demonstration was held ahead of International Human Rights Day, which is next week, on 10 December 2024. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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