{"id":3023,"date":"2020-03-25T12:07:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T12:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/covid-19-briefing-to-the-home-affairs-select-committee"},"modified":"2020-03-25T12:07:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T12:07:00","slug":"covid-19-briefing-to-the-home-affairs-select-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/covid-19-briefing-to-the-home-affairs-select-committee","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 Briefing to the Home Affairs Select Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Download the briefing<\/p>\n<p>Overview\u00a0<br \/>\nThe COVID-19 pandemic poses an\u00a0immense threat to public health, and particularly to the health of\u00a0vulnerable minorities including migrants.\u00a0It also creates insurmountable obstacles to many migrants in complying with the conditions of their leave or of any application they need to make. The current state of affairs is\u00a0highly dangerous, with many\u00a0people at risk of\u00a0death or serious\u00a0harm. The Home Office\u00a0response to this situation\u00a0is insufficient and confused. The helpline\u00a0has given extraordinarily dangerous advice,\u00a0for example\u00a0telling an 80 year old\u00a0cancer patient\u00a0to make a trip overland by car to Ukraine at a time when most of Europe is in lockdown, rather than overstay her visa.\u00a0I\u00a0bring up this example, not to excoriate the\u00a0staff member in question, but to emphasise how urgent it is that the Home Office\u00a0now\u00a0put in place\u00a0comprehensive\u00a0measures &#8230;<br \/><embed style=\"cursor: pointer;\" src=\"\" type=\"\"><\/embed><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Download the briefing Overview\u00a0 The COVID-19 pandemic poses an\u00a0immense threat to public health, and particularly to the health of\u00a0vulnerable minorities including migrants.\u00a0It also creates insurmountable obstacles to many migrants in complying with the conditions of their leave or of any application they need to make. The current state of affairs is\u00a0highly dangerous, with many\u00a0people at&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3023"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}