Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 2:39 pm on 8 November 2016.
Can I give my support to Jenny Rathbone’s comments about Bashir Naderi? I know that she raised this in the Chamber last week as well. And I’ve been contacted by constituents in Cardiff North who are friends of Bashir, asking me to also speak in the Assembly, giving my support to him, and also by his foster mother, who gave him a home here in Cardiff from the age of 10 and is desperate to help her boy from being deported. And I think it is a desperately sad situation that somebody who has so much to contribute and who has benefitted from the services we’ve been able to offer in Wales is now treated in this absolutely inhumane way, and has been taken to a detention centre suddenly and cruelly and now has only got two weeks to make a case to be able to stay in the place that has been in his home. So, really, I’m in support of Jenny Rathbone and also asking if there’s anything that the Government can do.