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Dear {contact_data~firstName} {contact_data~lastName}

As one of your constituents, I am writing to ask you to oppose the Government’s ban on refugees being granted British citizenship.

A person’s right to seek safety is not based on how they travel to the country they are seeking sanctuary in. A person’s right to asylum is based on the dangers they are escaping.

The Government has failed to offer safe routes for people to claim asylum, forcing people to take dangerous journeys to do so. This ban on citizenships further punishes members of our community whose claims of fleeing war, persecution, and danger have been upheld by our asylum system because no safe route to claim asylum was available.

Banning citizenship will create a new group of non-citizens, granted permission to stay in the UK but denied the security and safety of a permanent home.

I call on you to support EDM: Refusal of Citizenship to Refugees Who Have Made Irregular Crossings, tabled by Nadia Whittome MP, and demand the ban on citizenship is lifted.

Yours sincerely,
{user_data~First Name} {user_data~Last Name}

That this House expresses deep concern over the refusal of citizenship to refugees who have made irregular crossings to the UK; notes that this policy further punishes individuals whose claims of fleeing war, persecution, and danger have been upheld by the asylum system; further notes that, due to a lack of alternative safe routes, many people are forced to make unsafe crossings in order to claim asylum in the first place; is concerned that the refusal of citizenship denies these same individuals security and a safe, permanent home; and urges the Government to reconsider this policy.

The Letter

As your constituent, I am writing to ask you to support these amendments to the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill.

Deaths at our border are devastating and preventable, yet, as the number of deaths increase, the interest and accountability seems to wane. I think the Home Office should report on all deaths in the asylum system, and at our borders. It’s vital there is transparency and accountability, and that press, public and parliamentarians alike have the opportunity to scrutinise the Government over the lives lost - in the same way that immigration stats are published and poured over regularly.

We also need assurances that the Government will publish a strategy on the development of safe and managed routes for people to seek asylum in the UK.

The Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill, as currently drafted, fails to repeal all aspects of the Illegal Migration Act and the Nationality and Borders Act. Both Acts led to the extinguishing of the right of people to claim asylum if they travel by irregular routes (such as small boats) and created a system which criminalises refugees.

I believe we need an asylum system built on fairness, compassion, and transparency. As it stands, the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill does not provide that.

As my voice in Parliament, I ask you to voice your support for these amendments.

Yours,

{user_data~First name} {user_data~Last name}

{user_data~Postcode}

Amendments I am asking you to support:

NC1 - https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3929/stages/19774/amendments/10020845

This new clause would require the Home Office to publish quarterly statistics and information on deaths in the asylum system and in small boat channel crossings.

NC3 - https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3929/stages/19774/amendments/10021918

This new clause would require the Secretary of State to publish and lay before Parliament a strategy on the development of safe and managed routes for people to seek asylum in the UK.

NC27 - https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3929/stages/19774/amendments/10020262

This new clause would repeal specified provisions of the Nationality and Borders Act 2022.

Amendment 3 - https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3929/stages/19774/amendments/10021917

This amendment would add sections 29 and 59 to the list of sections of the Illegal Migration Act 2023 to be repealed.

Amendment 4 - https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3929/stages/19774/amendments/10021916

This amendment would specify that the offence created by clause 13 (supplying articles for use in immigration crime) cannot be applied to certain categories of individual.

Amendment 5 - https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3929/stages/19774/amendments/10021919

This amendment would specify that the offence created by clause 18 (Endangering another during sea crossing to United Kingdom) cannot be applied to certain categories of individual.