{"id":3189,"date":"2020-08-25T11:56:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T10:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/rebuttals-tackling-myths-and-inaccuracies-on-channel-crossings"},"modified":"2020-08-25T11:56:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T10:56:00","slug":"rebuttals-tackling-myths-and-inaccuracies-on-channel-crossings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/rebuttals-tackling-myths-and-inaccuracies-on-channel-crossings","title":{"rendered":"Rebuttals: Tackling myths and inaccuracies on Channel crossings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over 2,500 people have written to their MP using our template letter, calling for safe and legal routes for people to enter the UK. As MPs begin to respond, we are seeing some awful inaccuracies and myths.\u00a0<br \/>\nThis guide answers some of the claims and inaccuracies\u00a0around Channel crossings\u00a0that are coming up.\u00a0<br \/>\nYou can also find\u00a0a bite-sized version of this information\u00a0here.<br \/>\nPhoto credit: Mathieu Willcocks \/ Migrant Offshore Aid Station<\/p>\n<p>Claim: These people are not refugees \u2013 they are illegal immigrants \/ economic migrants. \u00a0<br \/>\nReality: The people making these crossings include pregnant women, families with children, and children who have absolutely no one with them. No one risks their life in a dangerous journey like this unless they have no other choice.<br \/>\nMost of them come from places like Syria, Libya and Iran where they are fleeing war and persecution, and are trying to join family in the UK. We know from reports that many of them will have b&#8230;<br \/><embed style=\"cursor: pointer;\" src=\"\" type=\"\"><\/embed><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 2,500 people have written to their MP using our template letter, calling for safe and legal routes for people to enter the UK. As MPs begin to respond, we are seeing some awful inaccuracies and myths.\u00a0 This guide answers some of the claims and inaccuracies\u00a0around Channel crossings\u00a0that are coming up.\u00a0 You can also find\u00a0a&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\/3189"}],"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=3189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}