What on earth have we become (“Threat of being ‘disappeared’ haunts asylum seekers amid Rwanda crackdown”)? I am ashamed to belong to a people who think it OK to treat others like this, who are prepared to terrorise and think it funny when they arrest and cart people off without warning, depriving them of their means of communication. These poor, deluded victims of unimaginable horrors in their home countries, having faced dangerous and frightening journeys to a country they thought of as a place of safety and support, are finding out what a mean, inefficient, uncaring, selfish “shower” we are. We’re all right, Jack, you can all go to hell, whoops, Rwanda.
Shame on the government. Shame on the Home Office and the way it and some of its employees treat such vulnerable beings whom they don’t even seem to see as people. Most have committed no crime, yet are treated more callously than fraudsters, drug dealers and murderers. Britain, where is your humanity?
Jacqueline Simpson
Garforth, Leeds
