Rosie Ayliffe’s life changed forever the day her phone rang and she was informed that her daughter, Mia Ayliffe-Chung, had been murdered by a man at a hostel for migrant workers in Australia.
As if the tragedy of her daughter’s death isn’t bad enough, Ayliffe has now seen her daughter’s name appear on a list of crimes allegedly committed by Muslim immigrants which is being circulated by the Trump administration to justify a controversial ban on some Muslims coming to the United States. So Ayliffe has written an editorial for a British newspaper in which she says this about her daughter’s death and that of her friend, Tom Jackson:
“Surely some White House minion with a list to compile could take the trouble to get the facts right: Mia and Tom’s deaths were not committed out of some misguided interpretation of the Qur’an.”
Ayliffe also notes that her daughter was killed by a man who was infatuated with her, and then says the real problem is that migrant workers are treated as less than human:
“My daughter was a migrant worker, and like migrant workers the world over she was treated as a disposable commodity. As a British parent of a delightful girl just out of school, with all the love of life in her eyes and a future of joy-filled love and laughter before her, this is difficult to bear. But it is a fact of life.
“There is a connection between my daughter and those travelers (Trump) wants to strip of their humanity and dignity in airports around the United States. It isn’t the connection he hopes to make, however. Rather, her life was held in little regard by a system that doesn’t value human rights for her or for immigrants.”
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