Soldiers’ mother faces deportation
Independent [UK]
03/13/07
Joy Bowman encouraged her Jamaican sons when they told her they wanted to join the Army in their adoptive country. She watched them flourish as the youngest joined the British Army’s Royal Logistics Corps and saw duty in Basra, while the eldest featured in a recruitment campaign to persuade more people from ethnic minorities to join the Army. But five years after supporting her son during a perilous tour of Iraq, Mrs Bowman and her 15-year-old daughter, who is preparing for GCSEs, face being deported tomorrow — further victims of a Home Office that places its removal targets ahead of the role in British life played by those it is deporting...
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/article2352800.ece
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Basra
03/13/07
Joy Bowman encouraged her Jamaican sons when they told her they wanted to join the Army in their adoptive country. She watched them flourish as the youngest joined the British Army’s Royal Logistics Corps and saw duty in Basra, while the eldest featured in a recruitment campaign to persuade more people from ethnic minorities to join the Army. But five years after supporting her son during a perilous tour of Iraq, Mrs Bowman and her 15-year-old daughter, who is preparing for GCSEs, face being deported tomorrow — further victims of a Home Office that places its removal targets ahead of the role in British life played by those it is deporting...
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/article2352800.ece
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Basra
rudkla - 13. Mar, 14:03
