Mohammad Tbishat made a living by cutting hair on the streets of Birmingham before fears of deportation from the UK prompted him to flee to Dublin via Belfast where he now lives in a tent.
Tbishat, 24, originally an electrical engineer from Jordan, lived in the West Midlands for four months, surviving financially by setting up a chair on the street. He charged £12 per customer, completing seven or eight haircuts per day.
Tbishat could afford to rent a room and was leading a “good life” in Birmingham, before he heard about the Rwanda bill and decided it was time to leave the UK. After deliberating between Ireland or France, Tbishat settled on Dublin.
“If they sent me to Rwanda, that would be very bad,”
