To: The Home Office
Stop the plans to uproot Afghan Refugees from London
The plans to move many Afghan refugees, families with children, from London where they have been living since 2021 to Wetherby in Yorkshire is thoughtless, cruel and harmful. Many of the children who were traumatised by their experiences of leaving Afghanistan but are now settled in schools and colleges will once again be unsettled and deeply upset by having to start again in a completely new area. These are the families of those who helped Britain in Afghanistan and who surely deserve better and more considerate treatment now they are here.
Why is this important?
It is wrong that these people will be uprooted and their lives turned upside down again. These are families who who are refugees and have right to remain in the UK. If moved hundreds of miles away they will have to start again in a new area. Adults will have to find new jobs and children will have to try and adjust to new places and schools after just being settled in London. Added to which it is uncertain if there would be school and college spaces for them.
These families need all our support to try and make the Home Office see how unreasonable and potentially harmful their proposed actions are.
These families need all our support to try and make the Home Office see how unreasonable and potentially harmful their proposed actions are.
