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AN IRAQI woman is set to be reunited with her son in England after more than 18 months apart, having won a legal battle to be allowed back into the country.
The woman, who is in her twenties, told how her husband, in his seventies, had taken her travel documents and left her stranded in Iraq in late 2016 after they had gone there to visit relatives.
She said her husband had taken their son, now three, home to Birmingham and that Home Office officials had refused to let her re-enter Britain.
Groups are urging the US government to secure the 16-year old’s release as his mental and physical health decline dramatically after nine months inside Ofer prison, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Calls have been made for the return to Venezuela of a two-year-old girl currently being held in the US, after being separated from her family by immigration officials, reports SUSAN GREY
A recent Immigration Summit heard from Lord Alf Dubs, who fled the Nazis to Britain as a child. JAYDEE SEAFORTH reports on his message that we need to increase public empathy with desperate people seeking asylum