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Teenager deported back to Mauritius will be separated from her family (25 March 2014)

Date: 25/03/2014
Duncan Lewis, Legal News Solicitors, Teenager deported back to Mauritius will be separated from her family

An 18-year-old girl due to be deported back to Mauritius on Tuesday (25/03/14) will be separated from her mother and sister once she is returned to her home country.

Yashika Bageerathi came to the UK in 2011, after her mother fled Mauritius to seek asylum in Britain because of a violent relative in Mauritius.

Yashika and her sister arrived to join their mother on tourist visas in 2009, with the intention of staying. The three women say the Mauritian authorities are unable to offer them protection and have applied for asylum in Britain. However, because Yashika is now 18 her application is being treated differently and she is being deported back to Mauritius from Yarl’s Wood Immigration Detention Centre in Bedford.

Speaking from the detention centre, Yashika told Sky News:

“I have absolutely no one there - my mum is here, my sister, brother, everyone is here. There is nowhere I can go to over there. I have no money, I have absolutely nothing.”

Pupils from the school where Yashika was due to take her A Levels this summer are campaigning for her to remain in the UK, along with teaching staff and Yashika’s family, neighbours and friends.

The head teacher of her school handed a letter to Home Office officials addressed to Home Secretary Theresa May , asking that that Yashika be allowed to remain with the rest of her family in the UK.

The Home Office has declined to comment on Yashika’s case, saying that it does not routinely comment on individual cases, adding that every case is assessed on its individual merits.

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