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The entire family of a 19-year-old star pupil threatened with deportation may be sent back to Mauritius with her, lawyers revealed yesterday.
Yashika Bageerathi was due to be deported to Mauritius on Tuesday but appeared to have won a reprieve after British Airways turned her away from the flight that was supposed to have taken her back.
However the whole family will now have to return after her mother Sowbhagyawatee's own appeal was rejected yesterday.
CLAUDIA WEBBE argues that Labour gains nothing from its adoption of right-wing stances on immigration, and seems instead to be deliberately paving the way for the far right to become an established force in British politics, as it has already in Europe
As Starmer flies to Albania seeking deportation camps while praising Giorgia Meloni, KEVIN OVENDEN warns that without massive campaigns rejecting this new overt government xenophobia, Britain faces a soaring hard right and emboldened fascist thugs on the streets
