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To: House of Commons
Safeguard the Dublin regulation when we brexit
Amend the brexit bill to reinstate the protection of the Dublin regulation, which allows lone children - unaccompanied asylum seekers-within the EU to apply for legal family reunion with relatives in the UK - even after we leave the EU.
Why is this important?
Boris Johnson’s withdrawal bill, which passed the Commons unamended on Thursday, leaves the children whose rights have been removed with no means of joining their family in the UK – other than using illegal traffickers or other dangerous routes. The most vulnerable people imaginable are lone refugee children - those few hundred who have family here deserve our support to come and be looked after here. They are often fleeing war, and may have witnessed horrors, torture and the destruction of their communities. If they are not traumatised when they leave their homes, then they certainly are in the aftermath. We shouldn’t allow Brexit to cost them their futures.
