I am asking for your support with our campaign to save one of our Sixth Form students being deported next Tuesday. She was detained last Wednesday when she signed on at the Home Office and is currently in Yarl’s Word Detention Centre.
Yashika’s solicitors are working to get a High Court Injunction to stop her deportation but we are also lobbying the Home Secretary. Please sign our on line petition
http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/the-rt-hon-theresa-may-mp-hom...
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This is her story


Yashika Bageerathi arrived in the UK along with her mother and brother in 2012 to escape abuse and danger. In that time, Yashika has proved herself a model student and valuable member of the community. However, now that she has turned 18, she is to be torn apart from her family and deported to Mauritius without even having the chance to compete her education.

Yashika’s teachers, friends, neighbours and other members of the community believe this is unacceptable. While they acknowledge that issues around immigration and deportation are complicated, the compassionate case for allowing Yashika to complete her education is clear. She is due to sit her A-Levels in just a few months’ time and to deprive her of this would be both a personal tragedy and a huge waste of the investment in her education to date.

Furthermore, the fact that she has technically become an adult does not mean there is anything fair or just about tearing her away from her mother and siblings. Like everyone else, Yashika has a right to family life; the notion that an 18 year is suddenly able to function in a separate country to their family is one that any parent, educationalist, youth or community worker would find absurd.

When Yashika and her family arrived in this country, they were escaping an extremely dangerous relative that the local authorities had proven unable to protect them from. Since enrolling at Oasis Academy Hadley, Yashika has made an outstanding contribution to the life of the academy. Not only is she an incredibly talented mathematician, she has spent considerable time helping to train, teach and coach younger students in the subject, transforming their learning experience. On top of all of this she has poured herself into voluntary activities, helping the Academy to win a national award in recent months.

To deport Yashika at any stage would cost the UK a valuable member of society. To do so just weeks before she is about to complete her education would be an uncompassionate and illogical act of absurdity.
Thank you for any support you can give.
Lynne

This email was originally sent by Lynne Dawes, Principal, Oasis Academy Hadley, Oasis Community Learning
t: 0208 804 6946 f: 0208 805 9949 e: lynne.dawes@oasishadley.org
a: Oasis Academy Hadley, 143 South Street, Enfield,
EN3 4PX
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