{"id":3952,"date":"2022-06-17T11:47:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T10:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/tackling-myths-and-inaccuracies-on-channel-crossings-and-the-plan-to-deport-refugees-to-rwanda"},"modified":"2022-06-17T11:47:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T10:47:00","slug":"tackling-myths-and-inaccuracies-on-channel-crossings-and-the-plan-to-deport-refugees-to-rwanda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/tackling-myths-and-inaccuracies-on-channel-crossings-and-the-plan-to-deport-refugees-to-rwanda","title":{"rendered":"Tackling myths and inaccuracies on Channel crossings and the plan to deport refugees to Rwanda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>there are many myths and inaccuracies peddled about people crossing the Channel to seek safety in the UK, and about the barbaric plan to deport people to Rwanda.\u00a0<br \/>\nThis guide\u00a0answers some of the claims and inaccuracies we commonly encounter. We have also created a bite-size shareable explainer on the Channel crossings, here.<br \/>\nPhoto credit: Mathieu Willcocks \/ Migrant Offshore Aid Station<\/p>\n<p>Reality: people crossing the Channel are refugees<br \/>\nA persistent myth is that those who cross the Channel are not refugees. But in reality,\u00a0people 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 \/>\nGovernment figures, published by the Refugee Council, show that\u00a091 per cent of people crossing the Channel in small boats came from just ten countries where human rights abuses and persecution are common, including Afghanistan&#8230;<br \/><embed style=\"cursor: pointer;\" src=\"\" type=\"\"><\/embed><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>there are many myths and inaccuracies peddled about people crossing the Channel to seek safety in the UK, and about the barbaric plan to deport people to Rwanda.\u00a0 This guide\u00a0answers some of the claims and inaccuracies we commonly encounter. We have also created a bite-size shareable explainer on the Channel crossings, here. Photo credit: Mathieu&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\/3952"}],"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=3952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}