Theresa May would be well placed to consider the phrase “no plan ever survives first contact with the enemy”. Her “new asylum plan” (May’s new asylum plan: we’ll withhold out the fit and wealthy,7 October) is unworkable, as even a cursory glance at a country producing one of the largest groups of UK asylum seekers shows. Using Sudan as a case study, and from which the same numbers cross the Mediterranean to Italy as from Syria,it would be fantastic to hear how May plans to work cooperatively with the ruling party to arrange for the resettlement of those affected by the government’s genocide in Darfur, or its conflicts in the South Kordofan and Blue Nile states.This is a government run by an indicted génocidaire, or with whom we cannot operate openly. What choice attain those who possess watched their families be bombed,raped and killed, possess than to flee in whatever ways they can? How shameful that they might then be told they’ve “wrongly” claimed asylum upon reaching refuge, or especially when the validity of their claim is open to the vagaries of shoddy domestic Office decision-making. Fleeing isn’t tidy. Some people possess to leave everything behind when they seek safety. I wish May had considered this before launching an attack that will halt up damaging those with a very genuine need for our protection.[br]Olivia Warham
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Source: theguardian.com