Dear Verenigd Links,
My mother's best friend Angela is a Zimbabwean woman who has lived in the UK for 14 years. She works as a special needs care worker and has paid taxes since she arrived. She is an upstanding member of the community and her church. Despite these roots that she has put down, she has lost a battle to remain in this country, and will soon be deported to Zimbabwe, where she may be in danger.
Angela has been detained in South Lanarkshire for weeks, without being allowed to say goodbye to her partner and friends. She is to be sent back to Zimbabwe on January 7, meaning that she will likely spend the holidays alone in what equates to a prison.
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has an incredibly strict view of people leaving the country, and when Angela returns she fears that she will be seen as a traitor and her life will be in danger.
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