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Raw nerve regarding Europe
• YOUR Comment regarding the death of Camden schoolgirl Zarine Rentia (March 27) and the iniquitous way in which the Home Office applies the immigration laws touched a raw nerve.
The government (and other parties) make a distinction between EU and non-EU membership in a way that a lot of people in this country do not.
We do not share a culture and language with Europeans the way we do with people from the Commonwealth. There isn’t the same emotional bond.
The feeling is mutual.
My father was Indian. He grew up with a love of all things English.
He read Chaucer at school.
My mother is Spanish and she and her family’s attitude to England is neutral at best and negative at worst.
Within the last year this lack of language and cultural similarity has been the cause of a lot of tension owing to the influx of eastern Europeans.
Iliyas Hussain
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Yes, it was ‘iniquitous’
• YOU were absolutely right in your editorial (Iniquitous, March 27) contrasting the brutal racist treatment of Zarine Rentia and Ama Sumani by the Home Office with the free entry for European foreigners.
Immigrants are not confined to former allies.
The treatment of people like Zarine and Uma is more remiscent of the wartime enemy than in keeping with what the allies thought they were fighting for.
John Wilson, NW3
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