Family in bid to block deportation

STUDENTS, politicians, trade union officials and anti-racism campaigners yesterday gathered outside the Dáil to support the case of an asylum-seeker family facing deportation.

A High Court battle will begin today determining whether Nigerian mother Elizabeth Onasanwo and four of her five children will succeed in having deportation orders against them overturned.

A fifth child, 18-year-old Christina, is not included in today’s case but is separately fighting deportation. The plight of Christina, who last year received her Leaving Certificate results on the same day as her deportation order, has been taken up by the Union of Students in Ireland while the family’s case has been widely publicised.