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Slide 1: From 1st December 2020, rough sleeping will become grounds for deportation.
Slide 2: New immigration rules will make rough sleeping grounds for deportation for many non-UK nationals. From December people could find their right to remain in the UK cancelled or refused if they spend as little as one night sleeping rough. The pandemic is pushing more into poverty and the rule changes make people vulnerable to exploitation and modern slavery.]
The UK can now deport legal immigrants for sleeping rough. The same immigrants who they bar from receiving most welfare benefits, including free healthcare. This will mean many people not accessing the support of charities and shelters when they need it most, for fear of being thrown out.
Sign these 2 petitions to fight it (linked in notes)
Go sign these petitions if you live in the UK (or are a British citizen)
https://campaigns.crisis.org.uk/page/70462/petition/1
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/561884
Weāre a third of the way to it being debated in parliament
Petition links in this reblog!
Can you only do it if youāre a UK citizen?
Only for the first, the second requires you to be a citizen or a resident.
Can Americans sign or just UK people?
For the first, anyone can sign, but for the second since itās an official petition on the Government webiste only UK Citizens/Residents can sign
The second one is the most important one. UK citizens and residents should absolutely sign this parliamentary petition and then email your MP to tell them you have signed it and that you want them to do something about this issue.
You can find your MP at members.parliament.uk/FindYourMP
Enter your postcode, location, MPs name or job title to find the name and contact details of your local MP.
Just put your post code in and it will give you your MPās name, the party they are a member of, and how to contact them.
Your email doesnāt have to be fancy, you donāt even have to be old enough to vote to bring up issues with your MP. Just say that you are a constituent (this means you live in the area that the MP represents) and you object to this policy especially during the current Covid crisis when times are so hard for the entire country, you believe homeless people should be helped not persecuted and you want to know what your MP is going to do about it.
Thank them for their time, sign your name and include contact information (address, telephone number etc or else you may not get a response)
once again you have to be a uk citizen or resident to sign a parliamentary petition but if you ARE you SHOULD
