To wonder how Theresa May can sleep at night - young girl being deported on Mother's Day

[NadiaWadia]

www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/the-rt-hon-theresa-may-mp-home-secretary-fightforyashika-stop-this-sixth-form-student-being-deported-alone-she-deserves-a-future

Yashika Bageerathi, an A-level student of 18 or 19, fled Mauritius with her family due to life threatening domestic violence, seeking asylum in the UK. She is very well thought of by both staff and students at the school and was just about to finish her A-levels. She has been taken alone to a detention centre and will be sent back to Mauritius, alone, tomorrow. Apparently she has nobody in Mauritius. Theresa May apparently feels it would be 'inappropriate' for her to 'interfere' in this.

British Airways refused to take part in this, good for them. So now the government are sending her back via Air Mauritius. Change.org are now asking people to email the Chief Executive of Air Mauritius, Andre Viljoen at [email protected] asking him urgently to do the same. Worth a try don't you think?

Personally I find the actions of the government sickening and inhumane. This poor girl (and her family). Sounds like she would have been an asset to the UK.

I know someone from Mauritius.
Thinks the UK is shite and can't wait to get back to his birthplace.

Why the uk in the first place, it a 8-9 hours flight.

Sun almost certainly because her Mum was already here.

She is here illegally. And that means by deception on a tourist visa. Whatever sympathy I might have had has completely vanished. Her 'legal team'. That must be expensive.

Vivienne she'll be on Legal Aid. We get paid peanuts for asylum cases.

When you're running for your life, from an island nation, I don't think it's unreasonable to apply for a visa for somewhere even though you're using deception. It won't have helped her asylum claim but won't have been fatal to it. You can hardly ask for asylum while you're in Mauritius.

I won't sign this petition.

She sounds like an economic tourist to me. And I think that's why people aren't signing the petition. Anyway her case is denied and the right decision is made. She just simply doesn't qualify for asylum according to the courts.

I'm so sorry for this young woman, but where to you draw the line? If we took in everyone suffering from DV, religious or political persecution, the UK's population would double or triple overnight.
She has had protection and education while growing up, and I'm glad that we have been able to provide this. But now she is an adult it's time for her to go home and perhaps leave a place for another child to be helped.

Yabu. There are far more deserving asylum seekers. If you let everyone who fancied overstaying a tourist visa do so then what's the point of immigration rules? They are there to help genuine asylum seekers.

YABU, I wouldn't sign, and I think it is out of order for you to call MNers mean spirited for not agreeing with you

Too bad if you think it's 'out of order'. Mean spirited is exactly the right word. Of course people have the right to disagree, but should state their case without being patronising and goady, then go away. I posted on AIBU as the deportation is supposed to be taking place tomorrow. AIBU gets more traffic. Clearly this was a mistake and I misjudged the typical mumsnetter. Or somebody has bussed in a load of Daily Mail readers. It is all very strange.

I really hope nothing bad happens to this girl if/when she gets back to Mauritius.

No-one has been patronising or goady. You didn't get the response you wanted.

Deal with it

^it is very clear yiu don't know much about this story
You've gotten all indignant ad whipped up on scant information and petition^

Nadia beyond handwringing and calling people mean spirited you're not getting this or adding anything useful

Patronising and goady.

What about all the other girls facing horrendous things on a daily basis throughout the world? We cannot save them all sadly. Plenty of posters have taken the time to explain why this decision was made. You came here with an emotive OP expecting everyone to get in a froth. You didn't read up on the background and are just disappointed that everyone didn't agree with you. That doesn't mean we are all mean-spirited cunts/vipers. It means we don't agree with yyou.

In my opinion, it's more patronising to post a half-baked, badly-researched emotive demand that a community blindly sign a petition drum-banging that a 'human rights' beach has occurred then become defensive and rude when the illogicality and illegality of the claim is exposed.

Perhaps direct your admirable desire to aid the oppressed in more deserving directions, OP?

Breach. Innit. Thought possibly a pun on Mauritian connection..

I won't sign. Asylum is for people whose life is under threat. She is not a girl but an adult who has only been her for a handful of years. Really can't bear people who fall for sob stories without seeing the bigger picture.

dolphins how do you know she "just fancied over-staying on a tourist visa"? How do you know that her life is not genuinely in danger?

There are plenty of people who are granted Refugee Status who start off with over- staying visas - it's their only chance to get OUT of their country.

Just because she was refused asylum does NOT mean she has lied. It may be she is believed BUT that the Police are considered to be effective or there are refuges available or something so International Protection isn't required.

I had left the thread , but came back just now to find I am still being attacked. Incredible. One reason seems to be because I made the mistake of admitting I didn't know much about the story. Do the naysayers know any more though, about this particular case?

Seemingly they are well up on the law re asylum seeking, and I'm not particularly. Points to them. I do see that domestic violence alone is not a reason to claim asylum, but surely for humane reasons exceptions can be made.

I just don't understand the rabid unpleasantness. Which I might have expected from other sites, but not Mumsnet. I was obviously very wrong though.

at breach/beach slip up.

Life's a beach. Deal with it.

Jeez, Nadia, are you stuck in a revolving door?
Make your mind up!

You are not being attacked. You are being disagreed with. There is a difference.

The only person that has told anyone to fuck off is the op.
If I wanted people to support a cause I would hope I would.argue my case with intelligence and reason and have the grace to accept that not everyone would agree with me.

Nadia, in the nicest possible way (really), it just doesn't sound as if you've grasped why people are disagreeing with you and thinking you are BU. Try re-reading the thread maybe...?

Nadia, why would this case be a special one for humane reasons? Surely you can see that the fact it's due to happen on Mother's Day is irrelevant? She is a single adult going back to her own country where she can continue her education. She will be able to come back here on holiday I am sure and her mother could go with her.