{"id":3586,"date":"2021-08-18T16:36:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T15:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mps-urge-reforms-to-ensure-afghan-refugees-are-welcomed"},"modified":"2021-08-18T16:36:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T15:36:00","slug":"mps-urge-reforms-to-ensure-afghan-refugees-are-welcomed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/mps-urge-reforms-to-ensure-afghan-refugees-are-welcomed","title":{"rendered":"MPs urge reforms to ensure Afghan refugees are welcomed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday 18 August, MPs are meeting to discuss the UK&#8217;s response to the crisis in Afghanistan. A number of MPs are calling for urgent changes tot the asylum system to welcome Afghan refugees.<br \/>\nAt JCWI we are urging the Home Secretary to:<\/p>\n<p>Scrap 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>Read our briefing to MPs<br \/>\n100 organisations, and over 40 crossbench MPs, have written to the Home Secretary to urge reforms to protect Afghan refugees.<br \/>\nStand in solidarity with refugees &#8211; join us today<br \/>\nSom&#8230;<br \/><embed style=\"cursor: pointer;\" src=\"\" type=\"\"><\/embed><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday 18 August, MPs are meeting to discuss the UK&#8217;s response to the crisis in Afghanistan. A number of MPs are calling for urgent changes tot the asylum system to welcome Afghan refugees. At JCWI we are urging the Home Secretary to: Scrap the &#8216;resettlement-only&#8217; plans\u00a0set out in the Nationality and Borders Bill, that&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\/3586"}],"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=3586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}