Boxing champion awaits deportation after fighting for England six times

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A boxing champion who has represented England six times has been arrested and locked in an immigration detention centre, pending deportation to Nigeria, a country that has said it won’t allow him to live there as he is not a citizen.

Kelvin Fawaz, London’s current middleweight boxing champion, has been in the UK for 15 years, since he was a child. He is a gifted amateur boxer whom Team GB wanted to represent Britain in the 2012 and 2016 Olympics, writing twice to the Home Office on his behalf.

Fawaz realised his talent despite, as a child, being brought from his home in Nigeria to the UK where he was abandoned and forced into domestic slavery. He has not been allowed to take up a place on Team GB because the Home Office has repeatedly refused to issue him a work visa. Although the Nigerian government has rejected his applications for a passport and he holds no other, his application to be considered stateless has been rejected by the government.

[link:https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/dec/14/boxing-champion-awaits-deportation-after-fighting-for-england-six-times|

Read the article. Stupid and heartless in equal measure. WTF has happened to our country????

[LeftishBrit]

1. Theresa May happened to our country - and I'm referring as much to her role as Home Secretary as

Prime Minister.

Here are petitions that one can sign:

https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/grant-kelvin-bilal-fawaz-british-citizenship

https://www.change.org/p/home-office-allow-kelvin-fawaz-to-get-a-uk-work-permit

Petitions have seemingly worked in the past in somewhat similar circumstances:

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/olympic-boxer-who-faced-deportation-10664617

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2. "Read the article. Stupid and heartless in equal measure. WTF has happened to our country???? "

It lost the common sense.