Stop the government from stealing citizenship!

Since 2010, Theresa May has taken UK citizenship away from 16 people. Two of these men were later killed in American drone attacks and others have been kidnapped, held in secret and rendered to America. At least five of these people were born right here in the UK, and one man had been living in Britain for almost fifty years. Some young children born in Britain have essentially been prevented from growing up here because now neither of their parents have the legal right to remain.

The 1935 Nuremberg Laws stripped German Jews of their citizenship, which the Nazis claimed would help safeguard the German nation. These laws were important because they formalized the inferior status of Jews and served as a necessary prelude to the atrocities of the Holocaust. Today in Britain, those who hail from an ethnic minority are at risk of having their citizenship revoked if the Home Secretary arbitrarily decides someone is not “conducive to the public good” and claims they hold citizenship elsewhere. These laws create two classes of citizenship – one for people whose lineage is “indigenously” British, and an inferior citizenship for the rest.

The British government should be protecting the human rights of its citizens, not treating these rights as inconveniences they can sign away! Join us and sign the petition to end the racist citizenship deprivation laws.