Clause 9 and the erosion of citizenship rights
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🗓️ 9 February 2022
⏱️ 31 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Guardian. |
| 0:10.4 | Today, why is clause 9 of the Nationality and Border's Bill so controversial? |
| 0:22.4 | I want to address the Government's clause 9, which proposes |
| 0:28.0 | removing people's citizenship without notice and in effect removing their right of appeal. |
| 0:35.0 | You've probably seen clause 9 of the Border's and Nationality Bill in the headlines. |
| 0:39.4 | When people from Black and minority ethnic backgrounds raise concerns about this, |
| 0:46.9 | deep concerns, the response from the Government opposite is trust us. |
| 0:52.8 | As that bill moves through the House of Lords, it's been especially criticized on clause 9, |
| 0:58.5 | which its critics say creates a two-tier citizenship in Britain that is racist and unconstitutional. |
| 1:08.6 | But the Government's ability to strip someone's British citizenship is actually nothing new. |
| 1:13.7 | So deprivation I've done E3 and C7. E3, C7 and C3. They're not just codes, they're the clients of |
| 1:26.4 | immigration lawyer Farhad Ansari. He specialises in cases of citizenship deprivation. |
| 1:33.8 | So E3 is a British-born citizen. His parents migrated to the country from Bangladesh. His parents |
| 1:42.2 | were naturalised before he was born. E3 was born in Britain. It's his home. He has |
| 1:48.4 | family ties to Bangladesh. He lived his entire life in the UK. He was working here. He had an |
| 1:54.8 | arranged marriage to a lady over there, Bangladesh. Due to the immigration bill that required somebody |
| 2:02.1 | to be earning a significant amount of money in order to sponsor their wife to move to the UK with them, |
| 2:08.4 | he was unable to do so. And while he was looking for employment with the record salary, |
| 2:15.3 | he would travel back and forth to Bangladesh. He had a child over there and his wife was pregnant |
| 2:20.5 | with her second child in 2017. In May 2017, E3 travels to Bangladesh to be there for the birth of |
| 2:29.7 | his second child. He didn't know it then, but he wouldn't be coming back. He's there for about |
| 2:36.6 | six to seven weeks. And then just a day before he's due to travel back to the UK, his mother |
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