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Listen To Our Cry/ Mothers on hunger strike

Families Unite | 15.04.2008 19:21 | Anti-racism | Migration

Seven mothers in the family unit in Yarl's Wood immigration prison are on hunger strike since Thursday the 10th of April. The group of those not eating includes two breastfeeding mothers.
A protest involving up to 15 families started last Thursday when a mother who was to be taken to the airport took refuge in the church with her baby and refused to leave.

This is the cry of all the kids who were born in this country and also the kids who have been in this country for more than two years. Because there already used to education in this country. We as families who are detained at YARL'S WOOD IMMIGRATION REMOVAL CENTRE we are concerned about the way our kids are being treated. We are not criminals and our kids did not choose to be born in this country.
To seek Asylum is not a crime but the way the government is treating failed asylum seekers is not good at all. HOW CAN A NORMAL HUMAN BEING PUT CHILDREN IN DETENTION CENTRE FOR MORE THAN A MONTH? Just because the parents did not qualify to be given documents to stay in this country. This is cruel and insult to these poor children, these poor children they have got their own rights in this country but you have taken their rights. The bad thing is that most of the families have been in detention more than a month now, flights have been cancelled judicial Reviews have been lodged but the Home Office re keeping us and they know that YARL'S WOOD is one of the worst detention centres in England according to how they treat the people.

They treat people like dogs, even a dog is better treated than a child who is born in this country. Their food is bad they make chips and spicy food, how can you expect a child to eat chilli every day. Kids are suffering and there depending on 35p which the government is giving them, because that is the only money you can buy at least the cheapest juice to give a child to drink. We are not even allowed to take anything from the dining room even a cup of water. The hygiene at Yarl's Wood is terrible no nursing places they are asking parents to wash baby bottles in the toilet sink. Please help us the government should do something about this, because we don't even think that it is normal to put kids in prison. In fact top disturb their own life and freedom as if they have committed a crime this is a cry for help. We are asking the HOME OFFICE SECRETARY to look into this complaint and we believe that anyone who is a parent out there and got children in this whole country can be concerned about this. We know for sure that a lot of people they don't even know that their prisons for families in BRITAIN, help us not to ignore this letter it is important to all the life's of the children and families who are in detention centres.


FAMILY UNITE from CRANE ( Yarl's Wood family unit)


background:
 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/mothers-detained-in-immigration-centre-hold-naked-protest-807802.html

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