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A rare apology

Regular readers may recall the story of our supporter Francisca from a couple of months ago :

http://britcits.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/clusterflock-today-i-learned-that-our.html

The government picked up an image of Francisca's daughter - a young girl they tried to effectively deport - for a campaign about dividing families. Without her permission. Or the photographer's permission.

 http://pic.twitter.com/E0O4S9x9Ci

Hence a subsequent twitterstorm, as well as the Daily Record (which had campaigned for Francisca's right to remain in the UK) weighing in.

Francisca tweets here, if you'd like to follow her : https://twitter.com/PanxaUrra

Well, today Francisca got a written apology - finally. Unfortunately the government is trying to pin it on outsourced staff outside the UK (nothing like a little bit of xenophobia there). Nonetheless, this is quite something :

Francisca's family's story :
http://britcits.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/francisca