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Published Date: 22 September 2008
By Claire Lewis
Crime reporter
SUPPORTERS of a Sheffield woman facing deportation after being refused asylum took their campaign to the Labour Party Conference in Manchester over the weekend.
They lobbied MPs and delegates urging them to put pressure on Immigration Minister Liam Byrne to overturn the decision to remove 25-year-old Annociate Nimpagaritse from the country.

Ms Nimpagaritse, a Sheffield College student from Burngreave, was
taken to a deportation centre in Scotland on September 12 and has been told she is to be flown back home to Burundi - in Africa on Thursday.

But she, her friends and supporters fear she will be killed, with her parents already having been murdered.

What do you think? Add your comment below.

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  • Last Updated: 22 September 2008 9:11 AM
  • Source: Sheffield Star
  • Location: Sheffield
 
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Westi,

22/09/2008 12:51:59
What do I think? I think the government will again stand firm and let anyone who are anyone stay!
It really does wind me up, but not as much as the Sheard saga!
I'm off to Poland to get a job!
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waywoodwind 1,

lowedges 22/09/2008 14:07:34
her friends and supporters fear she will be killed, with her parents already having been murdered.

We hear that one every time

why doesn’t her friends and supporter put their own hands in their pockets and keep her, mine are empty
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ekaterinbirg_owl,

rotherham 22/09/2008 16:00:02
some people have no idea, what it feels like to fear for your life, me personally i would sooner keep 1000 free loaders in then send one person back to be killed, it is easy to say waywoodwind 1 says, but then again they are not faced with the prospect of what could happen to this person.
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puppydog,

22/09/2008 16:59:55
fine you have your freeloaders and YOU foot the bill.bet you would soon change your opinion then if you had to do that..easy to take the moral high ground when it costs you nowt.. ?
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clairesg,

Shiregreen 22/09/2008 21:49:30
Will the illegal immigrants supporters and friends be paying off the many thousand pounds worth of debt that this individual has run up while in this country ?
I doubt it,
Hopefully this individual will have the courtesy to repay this amount at the airport on her long over due return on Thursday.
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23/09/2008 00:48:30
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Reason: Removed at editor's discretion
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city-dweller,

Sheffield 23/09/2008 15:04:18
After the war when the Nazis murdered millions of Jewish people, the United Nations spelled out the duty of countries to protect those fleeing persecution. Britain signed up to this. If you don't believe that Annociate from Burundi is being persecuted I suggest you read what she has to say.
More to the point, what's all this about "we" can't afford to let her live here? If asylum seekers were allowed to work (which they are generally not) they could support themselves. And it does seem that "we" can afford to bail out failed bankers and spend billions on wars which create refugees.
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clairesg,

23/09/2008 16:34:24
Has she gone yet ? or are we going to waste even more of our money on this illegal immigrant.
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city-dweller,

23/09/2008 16:53:41
Would that be the £billions of tax payers money handed out to the City stock-market losers or the £35 a week food voucher that some asylum seekers get Claire?

Don't you think it's a bit cowardly to attack a persecuted young woman rather than some greedy speculator or the boss of Northern Rock?

Our rulers rub their hands in glee when they see working class people attacking each other like this - whichever country they come from.
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