Submitted on Sunday 22nd August 2021
Rejected on Wednesday 25th August 2021
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Provide Homes For British Homeless People Before Accepting New Refugees
We demand that the UK Government helps its own citizens before agreeing to help refugees and asylum seekers from Afghanistan or any other country.
It is estimated that in 2019 in England alone there were 280,000 homeless people (1) and 136,000 homeless children living in temporary accommodation (2).
The UK Government cannot justify settling 20,000 Afghani citizens in the UK (3) when there are British people, including children, without a home in their own country.
(1) https://www.bigissue.com/latest/social-activism/how-many-people-are-homeless-in-the-uk-and-what-can-you-do-about-it/
(2) https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/12/14/every-child-uk-deserves-safe-and-secure-home
(3) https://www.gov.uk/government/news/bespoke-resettlement-route-for-afghan-refugees-announced
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
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The UK Government has a number of domestic and international obligations to consider applications for asylum from refugees, but we have published the following petitions, which you might like to sign:
Fund increased housing provision for homeless people: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/588351
Leave the 1951 Refugee Convention and 1967 Protocol & revoke the Immigration Act: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/577927
Cancel the Afghan citizens’ resettlement scheme: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/595224
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