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UK: Church pleads for amnesty

01 September 1994

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Church leaders called on the Home Office to give an amnesty to about 6,000 people threatened with deportation and described current immigration laws and procedures as "a modern form of the terror Jewish families faced under the Third Reich". The Churches' Commission for Racial Justice launched a campaign against the deportation of families with British-born children with a booklet, Breaking up the Family, published in September.

The churches' strong language was condemned by the Home Office and the tabloid press, but their message was endorsed by the Law Society, which criticised the family reunion provisions of the new immigration rules (which came into force on 1 October), and by a former head of the migration and visa department of the Foreign Office, who described the rules he enforced relating to elderly relatives as "cruel".

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