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MPs tackled Home Secretary Amber Rudd over plans to deport a Syrian refuge, moments after he was released from a removal centre.

Mohammed Mirzo, whose family lies in Cardiff, still faces being kicked out of Britain despite being let out of a Campsfield Immigration Removal Centre, Oxfordshire, today.

Mohammed, who arrived in Britain in the back of a lorry, was days from being sent to Bulgaria despite his father Ali already having refugee status in Cardiff.

Hailing the decision to release him, the family’s Labour MP Jo Stevens said: “I’m really pleased that Mohammed has been released from the immigration detention centre and has been reunited with his family in Cardiff.

​“​I want to thank the many people who publicly supported this case.

​“​However, this is a temporary situation. He still doesn’t have permission to permanently remain in the UK with his family so I’ll be continuing to press the Immigration Minister and the Home Office to ensure this happens.

​“​This ​G​overnment’s policy towards unaccompanied children who have sought sanctuary in Britain after fleeing war and being separated from their families is far too inflexible and in many cases, completely inhumane. It needs to change.”

​Citizens UK deputy director Jonathan Cox said: “It is brilliant news that Mohammed has been released to be with his family and friends in Cardiff where he belongs.

“However there is no room for complacency - the threat of deportation to Bulgaria still hangs over Mohammed.

“Now we need to see swift action from the Home Office to enable Mohammed to settle with his family in Cardiff permanently.”

More than 8,000 people signed a petition calling on the Government to save the family from being ripped apart.

Commons Home Affairs Committee chairwoman Yvette Cooper called on Ms Rudd to look at the case.

She said: “There is an issue about family and what happens when there are teenage siblings, most of whom are under 18 and one is over 18, and they’re being treated differently.”

Labour MP Stephen Doughty told Ms Rudd: “It’s being proposed that they’re deported, separated from the rest of the family.

“Are you looking at that case and will you look at it to see whether discretion can be used to make sure he’s not separated from his family and deported elsewhere?”

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The Home Secretary said she was unable to comment on the specific case but thanked the MPs for raising it.

The Mirzo family were forced to split up after civil war flared in their homeland in 2011, when Mohammed was just 16.

Father Ali, 48, settled in Cardiff in 2015, and was granted refugee status in 2016.

Supporters said Mohammed was “left traumatised by abusive treatment” from authorities in Bulgaria, which he passed through on the way to Britain.

They said he was “lost alone in a forest without food or water”.

Mr Doughty told the Home Affairs Committee: “It reflects a wider issue.

“There needs to be some consistency and compassion in these cases in terms of splitting up families.”