Rosette is Ugandan and attends a Church in Sheffield. She is to be deported back to Uganda shortly, where as a Christian, she is likely to face persecution.Her violent, unstable husband whom she had left behind has joined a terrorist group and may well kill her for having left him. She is locked up at Yarls Wood in Bedfordshire.
Her child was born in Britain. She has been here six years where she has proved a fine Church member; a worker for hospice charities; a willing student and a worthy citizen.
She made a proper and legitimate claim for asylum - unlike many.
According to Mr Blunkett the former Home Secretary, 90% of asylum seekers are bogus - in the light of that, what a great system our government has got: "Let's target the 10%!"
We may also ask why our government has failed to include Uganda on the list of countries proscribed from receiving deportees.
Perhaps she should have been: Muslim, terrorist, lesbian, criminal, anti-social, feckless, idle or a murderer of headmasters - then she would surely have qualified to stay!
I know of two Zimbabweans in the locality who may also be deported to where their lives will be immediately under threat.
Can this administration get anything right?
UPDATE: Some progress. 6/9/07 - Rosette granted bail by a judge and is back in Sheffield. The saga continues.
