The Home Office would like to facilitate the return of refugees to Syria, a minister has said, saying about 6,500 asylum claims had been suspended as the government waited to assess the fallout from the end of the Assad regime.And what about the ones already here? Claiming asylum from a regime which is no more?
Homsi is one of nearly 30,000 displaced Syrians in the UK celebrating the fall of Assad and what Keir Starmer described as his “barbaric regime” over the weekend, when Hayat Tahrir al-Sham rebels seized power in a fast-moving offensive.
Shimale’s story is similar to Homsi’s. He came to the UK in 2016 because he would have been imprisoned if he had stayed. He said: “I’m sure I can [return to Syria] now. With Assad away, I will be able to go back.”
Ruba Sulaiman Khaled, a trainee solicitor and influencer from Stockport who has been unable to return to Syria since 2011, said she hoped there would be a “revolution, a new start for Syria” and that it was a time to “establish the country from the ground up”.
Anyone taking bets on how many will actually go back?
An influencer from Stockport? There's an oxymoron!
ReplyDeleteYou beat me to it...Owen Jones will be fuming!
DeleteA female solicitor wants to go back to what will be an Islamic Extremist country... good luck! I imagine she'll make an excellent Islamic housewife.
ReplyDeleteI hope she appreciates the opportunity the UK is giving her to more than just chattel. That's all that most of us ask for: respect for our country, our rights and the advantages we afford visitors.