{"id":3063,"date":"2020-04-29T16:39:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T15:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/8-questions-the-home-secretary-still-needs-to-answer"},"modified":"2020-04-29T16:39:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T15:39:00","slug":"8-questions-the-home-secretary-still-needs-to-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/8-questions-the-home-secretary-still-needs-to-answer","title":{"rendered":"8 questions the Home Secretary still needs to answer"},"content":{"rendered":"

With so many migrants suffering in the coronavirus crisis because of restrictions put in place by immigration rules, the Home Secretary has questions to answer.
\nOn Wednesday she appeared before MPs to answer questions about the Home Office response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Her answers were vague and non specific – hugely disappointing when people’s lives are on the line. Here are 8 questions the Home Secretary still needs to answer.<\/p>\n

1. We are in a\u00a0pandemic\u00a0– why haven\u2019t you taken away obvious barriers to healthcare for migrants?\u00a0
\nThe NHS was designed as a public health service, that would take care of us from cradle to grave. But since 2015, non-EU migrants have been forced to pay up front for some treatment, as well as paying a \u2018double tax\u2019 immigration health surcharge on top of visa fees. On top of that, as part of the Hostile Environment, designed to make life as difficult as possible for migrants without the right papers, immigration enforceme…
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With so many migrants suffering in the coronavirus crisis because of restrictions put in place by immigration rules, the Home Secretary has questions to answer. On Wednesday she appeared before MPs to answer questions about the Home Office response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Her answers were vague and non specific – hugely disappointing when people’s…<\/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\/3063"}],"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=3063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}