Campaigns build against ‘unworkable’ Rwanda deportations

Huddersfield Friends tweeted that they took part in the event ‘as part of our commitment to becoming an anti-racist community, and in solidarity with all asylum seekers and refugees’.

Huddersfield Quakers joined local protests across Britain this month in a rally against forced asylum deportations to Rwanda.

Local Quaker Robin Bowles, who spoke at the rally, told the Friend that around thirty to forty people took part in the event organised by Kirklees Stand Up To Racism, including nine Quakers.

Huddersfield Friends tweeted that they took part in the event ‘as part of our commitment to becoming an anti-racist community, and in solidarity with all asylum seekers and refugees’.

‘No one is illegal! Residency papers for all! No forced deportations!’ they added.

The gathering on 5 September was one of several local Britain-wide protests timed to coincide with a five-day hearing in the Royal Court of Justice against the government’s plan to send migrants to Rwanda.

Stand up to Racism, a federation of trade unions, the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCSU) and Care for Calais, brought the legal challenge to get the policy declared illegal.

Representatives from groups including Kirklees Unison and Huddersfield TUC attended and spoke at the event, including a local volunteer who works with asylum seekers and has been to Rwanda in the past.

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