immigrants
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Community shuts down ICE contractor in St. Rose, Louisiana, after Father’s Day hearing blitz
BI is a surveillance company tracking immigrants for ICE. The private prison corporation GEO Group acquired it in 2011. The government uses BI to run its Intensive Supervision Appearance Program (ISAP) to monitor immigrants, all part of the vast web of private contractors — including tech giants — making big bucks off government repression. Continue reading
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Show up for racial justice for Palestinians – oppose the Anti-Boycott Bill
Over the last weeks, campaigners in the UK have targeted arms manufacturers, companies, banks and universities that are complicit in the violation of rights of Palestinians living under occupation. They have also protested against the Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill (otherwise known as the anti-boycott bill) that had its third Commons reading… Continue reading
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UK: Priti must resign
Yesterday 24 November 2021, at least 27 men, women and children died attempting to reach safety in the UK. Our hearts go out to the families and loved ones of all those who have lost their lives. Continue reading
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BID’s response to the Nationality and Borders Bill
As our team digest the Nationality and Borders Bill and its dire implications for human rights we join many others in expressing our extreme dismay at the proposition of such a cruel and unworkable immigration bill. Continue reading
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Migrants Organise: Your solidarity is working!
Earlier this year we reached out to you, to support our legal challenge against the Home Office. We had significant concerns about the Home Office’s failure to provide EU citizens living in the UK with an accessible and humane process for settling here after Brexit. Continue reading
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UK: The Hostile Environment Will Affect All EU/EEA Citizens Not Covered by The EU Settlement Scheme from 30th of June
EU citizens with complex mental health needs risk being removed and indefinitely detained from 30th June. Migrants Organise is taking the Home Office to court to prevent this injustice. Continue reading
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New EU deportation law breaches fundamental rights standards and should be rejected
A proposed new EU law governing standards and procedures for deportations would breach fundamental rights standards, massively expand the use of detention, limit appeal rights and undermine ‘voluntary’ return initiatives. It should be rejected by the European Parliament and the Council, argues a new analysis published today by Statewatch. [1] Continue reading
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Review of ‘The UK border regime’ – a goldmine for activists? By Francis Webber
In the overcrowded market of books on immigration control, Corporate Watch’s 331-page book, The UK border regime: a critical guide, is one which will not only be read, but will be an indispensible resource for activists. My initial doubts that yet another book on immigration could tell me anything new were quickly dispelled: it is… Continue reading
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Key Fact Obscured in Immigration Coverage: MS-13 Was Made in US By Justin Anderson
In a piece for the Atlantic (6/20/18), former George W. Bush speechwriter David Frum countered statements by MSNBC’s Chris Hayes, in which Hayes described a harrowing first-person account of a mother forcibly separated from her child at the US/Mexico border as reading like “the literature of a totalitarian government”: Continue reading
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IRR News (6 – 19 July 2018)
20 July 2018 — Institute of Race Relations Institute of Race Relations weekly digest – Against Racism, for Social Justice The lethal consequences of ‘hostile environment’ policies continue to be revealed in our regular calendar of racism and resistance. On 20 June, as Harmit Athwal reports, 23-year-old Mustafa Dawood was found dead after falling from a building Continue reading
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Big Tech’s war on refugees and immigrants
Across the world, companies like Microsoft and Salesforce are helping ICE and Frontex lead their war against immigrants and refugees. Continue reading
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The “Global War on Terror” Created The “Global Refugee Crisis”
25 June 2018 — Global Research News Humanity’s ‘Dirty Little Secret’: Starving, Enslaving, Torturing and Killing Our Children By Robert J. Burrowes, June 25, 2018 Every day, according to some estimates, human adults kill 50,000 of our children. The true figure is probably significantly higher. We kill children in wars. See, for example, ‘Scourging Yemen’. We kill them with Continue reading
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The “Global War on Terror” Created The “Global Refugee Crisis”
25 June 2018 — Global Research News Humanity’s ‘Dirty Little Secret’: Starving, Enslaving, Torturing and Killing Our Children By Robert J. Burrowes, June 25, 2018 Every day, according to some estimates, human adults kill 50,000 of our children. The true figure is probably significantly higher. We kill children in wars. See, for example, ‘Scourging Yemen’. We kill them with Continue reading
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NHS data-sharing U-turn is welcome – but more to do to scrap the ‘hostile environment’By Peter Pannier
Recent attention to the Windrush scandal has focused attention on the many ways migrants are deterred from accessing healthcare. The government has this week announced it will be suspending “with immediate effect” the controversial memorandum of understanding (MOU) under which NHS Digital shared NHS patients’ details with the Home Office. Continue reading
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IRR News (24 March – 6 April 2017)
6 April 2017 — Institute of Race Relations Institute of Race Relations weekly digest – Against Racism, for Social Justice It was not just Britain First and the English Defence League that tried to make political capital out of the attack in Westminster by Khalid Masood that led to the deaths of a police officer Continue reading
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Making the NHS a “hostile environment” for migrants demeans our country By Erin Dexter
Three years have passed since Theresa May, then home secretary, committed to creating a “hostile environment” for so-called “illegal” migrants in the UK. Since then the UK has reinforced and multiplied its inland borders, making border guards of teachers, landlords, and healthcare workers. Continue reading
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UK: The Police, Squat Evictions and Housing Precarity By Izzy Köksal
A recent tweet by Lambeth MPS brags about the eviction of a squatted doctors surgery in Brixton on a rainy January morning: ‘another crime generator closed down!’ they exclaimed. Happily, the twitter account was met with a barrage of abuse, but this tweet shows how the police are often found intervening in what is a… Continue reading
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Should you have to ‘earn’ your right to use the NHS? By Alex Langford
On top of having to pay £200 on entering the UK to maintain the decadent luxury of their own health, a new government report highlights how even after making that payment, non-EU migrants will be liable for a raft of extra charges. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 