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I’ve been trying to understand how to actually support the principle of non-refoulement when my own government is quietly increasing deportations to countries with known persecution records. It feels like such a distant legal concept until you see the flight manifests and read the human rights reports, and then it becomes a very personal horror. I just don’t know how to reconcile the law on paper with what’s happening in practice.

I keep returning to non-refoulement not as a line in a treaty but as a person I met. Seeing flight manifests makes it personal, like the line between policy and people is dangerously thin.

I joined a local aid group and started collecting testimonies. We logged timelines, watched a deportation pause melt away, and I still hear one grandmother whispering about her grandson.

I wrote to my MP and showed up at a rally, hoping a single voice would shift something. It felt useful for a moment, then hollow when nothing changed.

Is the real problem the law or the way it’s applied in practice? I keep asking myself that while I read notes from a clinic waiting room and see the fear in people’s eyes.

I’m not a lawyer, but I bodged together a simple checklist for volunteers: documents ready, language line, and a moment to listen. Some days it helps, some days it doesn’t.

We had a small win when a case was paused for review after our report was filed, but the next week another family got a notice. The rhythm is exhausting.

I was restocking shelves at the shelter and almost forgot why I came here. Then a kid tugged at my sleeve and said thanks for listening. It’s messy, and I don’t know what to do next, but I keep showing up.

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