"After the devastation of Hurricane Melissa, a tropical cyclone that made landfall across the Greater Antilles area in late October, eight-year-old Lati-Yana Stephanie Brown was left destitute in Jamaica. But after her UK-resident parents appealed for the Home Office to expedite her visa application, officials rejected it and Lati-Yana has been left to sleep on the floor of her elderly grandmother's destroyed home."
"But the rejection rested on factual errors, according to Lati-Yana's mother, Kerrian Bigby. Dawn Butler, her MP, shared a letter with me raising concerns about misrepresentations in the decision notice, including the claim that Bigby does not have full parental responsibility for the child, which she says is false. The Home Office doubling down on this decision rather than acting on a humanitarian emergency speaks to a broader truth: Britain's immigration system routinely separates children from their parents with little regard for the devastating consequences"
Lati-Yana Stephanie Brown, eight, was left destitute in Jamaica after Hurricane Melissa and is sleeping on her elderly grandmother's destroyed home's floor. UK-resident parents appealed to the Home Office to expedite her visa; officials rejected the application citing factual errors that her mother says are misrepresentations, including a false claim about parental responsibility. The Home Office declined to act on the humanitarian emergency. Britain's immigration system routinely separates children from parents. Family separation has roots in slavery where children were sold or used as leverage. Britain extracted wealth, compensated slave owners after abolition, and left the Caribbean underdeveloped, driving migration to Britain.
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