Stage of the system that allows an unaccompanied minor to stay, at least until aged eighteen. His church and Bishop are demanding an enquiry -saying the system is failing.
But in fact this tragic event is just the kind of publicity the UK government, like other European ments, is courting.
They hope it will put off aspiring migrants - and even more importantly it can be waved over the head of any of the growing number of migrant workers who have settled here with their families but without UK or EU passports and the rights that 500 people marched
through Bolton,
Lancashire on October 1, in defence of the Sukula family and in opposition to
Section 9 of the
Immigration Act go with them. This is also an unscrupulous employer's dream. Deportation is the ultimate threat to a worker who starts to raise issues about pay and conditions - and it is a very real threat for those here courtesy of the work permits their employers can revoke.
The example of the results of this kind of despair - the suicides, the stories of brutality by the guards, the very arbitrariness of the whole home office machine, the racist and hostile attitudes of most of the civil servants involved - keep this growing group of the workforce firmly in its place.
The renewed anti terrorist witch hunts fit into the same strategy. They add up to a lethal racist cocktail that could divide and weaken an