Wife deported from UK despite being married to Briton for 27-years!

A woman living in the UK who has been married to a British man for 27 years has been forcibly removed from the country. Irene Clennell, who made headlines when she was placed in immigration detention, was deported to Singapore on Sunday. Clennell first arrived in London in 1988 and married John, a British man, two years later. They settled in County Durham and had two children together. She now has one grandchild. Her sister-in-law Angela confirmed Clennell had been deported. She said she had been subject to “insensitive and unfair government rules” and that Irene’s husband, her brother, was seriously ill. She told the Guardian: “It’s outrageous what has happened today. I’m appalled by it especially doing it on a Sunday so you can’t contact anyone to try and stop it happening.

Read more: Nicola Slawson, Guardian, http://tiny.cc/hfxhjy

Irene Clennell

Early Day Motion 1004: Deportation of Irene Clennell

That this House condemns the deportation of Irene Clennell, who has been married to a British man for 27 years and has two British sons and a granddaughter, to Singapore, due to her spending periods of time in Singapore caring for her elderly parents and invalidating her residential status; notes that Mrs Clennell was detained at a routine appointment at an immigration reporting centre in Middlesbrough and held prior to deportation in Scottish detention centre Dungavel House, which is infamous for abuse and inhumanity, and on Sunday morning was taken from Dungavel to Singapore, with just £12 in her pocket, without any of her clothes or belongings, leaving behind her sick husband Jon, for whom she is a carer; further notes that this is just one example of the Government's relentless drive towards unrealistic migration caps that don't take real lives into account and tear apart families; and urges the Home Office to develop a more humane approach to immigration rules immediately.

House of Commons: 01/03/2017, http://tiny.cc/qg7jjy

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Self-Harm (Suicide Attempts) In Immigration Removal Centres Reach All time High in 2015!

YARL'S WOOD IMMIGRATION REMOVAL CENTRE

There were 393 attempts (11% increase on 2014) by Immigration detainees across the detention estate, to self-harm throughout 2015, that is an average of more than one a day. Harmondsworth IRC had the highest number 105 and their were 64 attempts in Yarl’s Wood, The Verne 52, Morton Hall 51.

 Two & half thousand (2,597) detainees were on suicide watch during 2015. 11 of these were children detained in The Cedars. Harmondsworth had the highest number 478, Brook House 364, Colnbrook 345, Yarl's Wood 335.

 Their were two deaths both males in Immigration detention is 2015, one in The Verne in August and one Yarl’s Wood family unit in April.

 Source for all data on ‘Self-Harm’ and those on ‘Self-Harm Watch’ Freedom of Information requests.

 Complete statistics for 2015 Here . . . . 

Statistics for the years 2007 through 2014 can be found here . . . .