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Jonathan Chaplin's avatar

Excellent piece, John

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Andrew Bolton's avatar

Wonderful John! The best piece I have read on immigration. Thank you. I live in Leicester, a wonderful immigrant city. I am married to an immigrant. I have lived and worked abroad in four different countries and know what it is like to be an "alien". What have I learnt living in Leicester for over 20 years and living abroad for 25 years? We are all human and it is possible to make life -long, authentic friendships across ethnicities. We are all made in the image of God in wonderful diversity and are blessed to be in community with each other.

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John Heathershaw's avatar

Amen to that. Four foreign countries (plus Wales) have accepted me as an immigrant in the last 30 years. Theresa May might call me a "citizen of nowhere" but I was able to make home in all these places (three of them being Muslim-majority countries). Should we be surprised that a Labour PM follows suit with this debased political discourse?

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