Migrant Voice director and members speak to Birmingham Live about Home Secretary's claims

Migrant Voice director and members speak to Birmingham Live about Home Secretary's claims

On 10 October, our director Nazek Ramadan and some of our West Midlands-based members spoke to the Birmingham Live about the Home Secretary's recent comments on migration.

Nazek criticised the content of the Home Secretary's speeches and the language she used. "Her choice of words to describe migrants in lower paid jobs as "low skilled" creates division and tensions and enforces outdated views. The Home Secretary's plan to create a "blanket ban" on people seeking asylum in the UK who enter the country 'illegally', unveiled at the Conservative Party Conference, goes against the basic principle of the UN Convention."

MV member Shantel Murray also spoke out. ""They encouraged people to clap for us during COVID-19 and while we risked our lives, now we are 'low skilled' and unwanted, how do you think that makes us feel?"

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