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- Strangers into Citizens was a political advocacy campaign from around February 2007 to May 2010 by the then Citizen Organising Foundation, also known as the London Citizens organisation, now defunct, having been merged into the Citizens UK organisation as separate local chapters. The campaign called for irregular and extraordinary (one-off and one-time-only) general amnesty, regularisation, naturalisation, and British citizenship for illegal immigrants in the United Kingdom. The campaign became defunct in 2013. The campaign was founded by Austen Ivereigh, a former director of public affairs for the Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, and as such had strong links with amongst others the Cardinal Archbishop, Westminster Cathedral, the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales and the Catholic Herald newspaper, all three being supporters of the political advocacy campaign. The campaign attempted to influence the policies of the political parties and candidates in both the 2008 London mayoral election and the 2010 general election in the United Kingdom During the London mayoral election, the campaign was supportively endorsed by the Liberal Democrats and the Labour and Conservative candidates for the Mayoralty of London in their personal capacity, being Ken Livingstone and Boris Johnson respectively. (en)
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- Strangers into Citizens was a political advocacy campaign from around February 2007 to May 2010 by the then Citizen Organising Foundation, also known as the London Citizens organisation, now defunct, having been merged into the Citizens UK organisation as separate local chapters. The campaign called for irregular and extraordinary (one-off and one-time-only) general amnesty, regularisation, naturalisation, and British citizenship for illegal immigrants in the United Kingdom. The campaign became defunct in 2013. (en)
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