FEMALE refugees and asylum-seekers marched into Parliament yesterday to tell MPs that the Tories’ immigration policies would separate them from their children and put their lives at risk.

Dozens of women from countries as diverse as Nigeria and Albania confronted politicians before the third reading of the Immigration Bill in the Commons.

The All-African Women’s Group (AAWG) organised the lobby against the Bill which would force people to appeal their immigration cases only after being deported.

Ghanian Elizabeth Qaino told the Star: “I’ve been here for 15 years.

“When I came from Africa I went through a lot in political and family life.

“I went through hard problems because normally some families force us to marry the wrong people.

“If you don’t accept it they take you somewhere and cut your body — if you see my body, all over I’ve been cut.

“So when I came, I came to have life.”

Ms Qaino said she felt “dumbstruck” by immigration laws that don’t allow her to work and make money to support her family and her community.

Home Secretary Theresa May has said the Bill aims to create a “really hostile environment” for those living in Britain illegally.

AAWG co-ordinator Cristel Amiss, who has helped hundreds of women navigate British immigration law, said the problem lay with the Tories’ “perspective on human life.”

Labour Edmonton MP Kate Osamor was one of the few MPs who came down to meet the women, hugging many of them on the way.

Tory member for Croydon Central, home to UK Border Agency HQ, Gavin Barwell suggested merely that the women write down their complaints on the detention and deportation process.

Inside the chamber, shadow home office minister Keir Starmer said: “One of the problems with this Bill is that if it’s tested against its objective it doesn’t meet the objective.

“If it’s tested against making the UK simply appear a more hostile environment, that is the only sense in which the government is able to advance some of these provisions.”

MPs were due to vote on the Bill after the Star went to press.