"'We don't know what to do': asylum seekers flown to Spain by Home Office"

      [Guardia Civil at Madrid-Barajas airport arrivals hall. Photograph: Europa Press News/Europa Press/Getty Images]

One of the most disgusting acts against refugees that I can remember seeing. This, from the current British government...

"Eleven Syrian asylum seekers have been abandoned outside the airport in Madrid where a Home Office charter flight deposited them, the Guardian has learned." 

Taken without even their ID documents, according to the story. The "hostile environment on steroids" as one commenter called it.

Read more from source here.
  

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Published on September 06, 2020 10:00
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