Countering the toxic debate around asylum and immigration

Countering the toxic debate around asylum and immigration

We hear a lot from politicians about immigration, and the debate is frankly toxic. So last week I went to Common Flora, near Diptford, to meet a group of asylum seekers who come here once a month to work on the land, share a communal lunch and sing together. I met a young man who’d fled war in Southern Sudan and a woman who had been trafficked into slavery in the Gulf States and managed to escape… others from Iraq, Kurdistan and Afghanistan. Al…