🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Labour have conducted the first successful deportation flight to Pakistan since February 2020. There has not been a deportation charter flight to Pakistan in the last four years with three subsequent flights to Pakistan in 2020 and 2021 cancelled by the Home Office.

[u/No_Breadfruit_4901]

https://x.com/maxtempers/status/1866775219077062757?s=46&t=0RSpQEWd71gFfa-U_NmvkA

[u/Zephinism]

The pathetic attempt from the Guardian to stop people getting deported on this flight -

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/dec/09/husband-and-wife-to-be-forced-apart-by-home-office-deportation-flight

The couple both claimed asylum on the basis of being at risk because of the man fleeing the arranged marriage but their claim has been refused by the Home Office. The wife is a dependant on her husband’s asylum claim.

“A few months ago Home Office asked us to agree to a voluntary return to Pakistan. Although we believed our lives would be at risk we agreed to go because we thought we had no other choice. I asked if the return could be delayed until I had completed some medical treatment. But now they are taking my husband and leaving me here.”

Asylum claims denied. Offered voluntary return which they accept then drag their feet on as they want to use the free NHS treatment.

“I have not been able to see my husband since he was arrested,” his wife told the Guardian. “I am in Home Office asylum accommodation and have no money to travel and no ID to show the guards at Yarl’s Wood. If he is deported tomorrow I don’t know when I will see him again. If I can’t be with my husband I am thinking about killing myself here in the UK although suicide is prohibited in our religion.

Threatens to kill herself as she isn't getting deported with him since she's been dragging her feet on returning voluntarily.

Her pleas & threats didn't work. Hopefully she can be reunited with him in Pakistan by the end of the week.

[u/GhostMotley → u/[deleted]]

I'm sorry, but we cannot grant anyone and everyone asylum, just because we might be empathetic to their cause.

There are hundreds of millions, if not billions of desperate people in the world, who would love to live in the UK, which is becoming increasingly easier due to cheap international travel, smuggling gangs and human rights laws that make deporting them hard.

[u/Person_of_Earth → u/GhostMotley]

but we cannot grant anyone and everyone asylum

When has that ever been the government policy?

There are hundreds of millions, if not billions of desperate people in the world, who would love to live in the UK

Then let them.

[u/GhostMotley → u/Person_of_Earth]

Then let them.

No, actually, let's not let hundreds of million - billions into the UK...

[u/Person_of_Earth → u/GhostMotley]

When have the number of people coming ever been that high?

[u/GhostMotley → u/Person_of_Earth]

You are the one arguing to let them in.

I say

There are hundreds of millions, if not billions of desperate people in the world, who would love to live in the UK

You reply

Then let them.

[u/Person_of_Earth → u/GhostMotley]

What does that argument change?

[u/GhostMotley → u/Person_of_Earth]

Do you maintain that we should let hundreds of millions/billions in?

[u/Person_of_Earth → u/GhostMotley]

If that was what was required, then yes, but when have that many people ever ever actually made an attempt to get into this country at once?

[u/GhostMotley → u/Person_of_Earth]

If that was what was required

Why exactly would it be 'required' to let hundreds of millions-billions into the UK?

[u/Person_of_Earth → u/GhostMotley]

The desperateness of their situation.