{"id":3585,"date":"2021-08-17T22:31:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T21:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/dont-criminalise-refugees-our-joint-letter-to-the-home-secretary-on-the-afghanistan-crisis"},"modified":"2021-08-17T22:31:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T21:31:00","slug":"dont-criminalise-refugees-our-joint-letter-to-the-home-secretary-on-the-afghanistan-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/dont-criminalise-refugees-our-joint-letter-to-the-home-secretary-on-the-afghanistan-crisis","title":{"rendered":"Don&#039;t criminalise refugees &#8211; our joint letter to the Home Secretary on the Afghanistan crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>89 charities and human rights organisations have written to the Home Secretary, urging a generous and compassionate welcome to Afghan refugees.<br \/>\nWe urge the Home Secretary to:<\/p>\n<p>Abandon the &#8216;resettlement-only&#8217; plans\u00a0set out in the Nationality and Borders Bill, that would criminalise or deny full refugee status to those who make their own journeys to seek asylum in the UK<br \/>\nGrant\u00a0immediate asylum\u00a0to Afghans already waiting for status in the UK<br \/>\nRelease all Afghan nationals from\u00a0detention<br \/>\nExpand the family reunion route\u00a0so that Afghans can be joined by other members of their family, such as parents and siblings<br \/>\nJoin the international effort to\u00a0evacuate and resettle\u00a0Afghan nationals<\/p>\n<p>Stand in solidarity with refugees &#8211; join us today<br \/>\nFor press\u00a0enquiries please contact Nadia Hasan, Press Officer for JCWI,\u00a0nadia.hasan@jcwi.org.uk\u00a0\/\u00a0+44(0)7742 079349\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Joint letter to the Home Secretary<br \/>\n(pdf version)<br \/>\nDear Home Secret&#8230;<br \/><embed style=\"cursor: pointer;\" src=\"\" type=\"\"><\/embed><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>89 charities and human rights organisations have written to the Home Secretary, urging a generous and compassionate welcome to Afghan refugees. We urge the Home Secretary to: Abandon the &#8216;resettlement-only&#8217; plans\u00a0set out in the Nationality and Borders Bill, that would criminalise or deny full refugee status to those who make their own journeys to seek&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\/3585"}],"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=3585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}