immigration
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UK: We’re no island of strangers
Earlier this week, the UK government launched its immigration white paper. The prime minister warned of Britain becoming “an island of strangers” and referred to the period of increased migration as a “squalid chapter”. We don’t recognise the country described here. Nor will anyone who has lived alongside, worked with, or supported people seeking safety… Continue reading
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UK: Pandering to base populism
Home secretary Yvette Cooper’s shameless decision, in the run-up to the May local elections, to publish statistics on the nationalities of foreign offenders and their crimes, and her amendment to the Borders Security Bill to bar all foreign nationals on the sex offenders’ register from making asylum claims, haven’t gained Labour votes, but have added… Continue reading
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Refugees: ‘A wasted opportunity to do what is really needed’
SIR KEIR STARMER faced a backlash from refugee groups today after claiming a lack of co-ordination on illegal migration has given people-smugglers an “open invitation” to send migrants to Britain. Continue reading
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Labour on immigration: 5 things you need to know
The Tories’ 14-year run is over, but migrant solidarity campaigners are doubtful whether things look much brighter under Labour. How much has Keir Starmer’s government departed from the Conservatives’ migration policies, and what does the Home Office have in store for the next few years? Continue reading
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Statewatch News Issue 24/20 15 November 2024
Friday, 15 November 2024 — Statewatch Also available as a PDF. In this issue: EU migration policy priorities: a jargon-free translation Push for EU-wide “tracking and bugging of vehicles” Open letter condemns “illegal, immoral, and unworkable” immigration and asylum policies “Decisive and unequivocal stand” needed against Poland’s suspension of asylum New material from across Europe Continue reading
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“We must stop another Windrush.”
“EU citizens may soon encounter issues akin to those witnessed in the Windrush scandal,” say legal charity Here For Good. Last year, the Home Office introduced “draconian rules” relating to late applications for the EU Settlement Scheme (EUSS). The scheme gives EU citizens legal rights to stay in the UK post-Brexit. Continue reading
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Gov announces new Hostile Environment Taskforce – help us fight back!
Last week, the government announced the creation of a new Home Office taskforce that will attempt to expand Hostile Environment immigration policies. Continue reading
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UK: State violence in a no-access border zone
Exactly a year ago, a dinghy with 34 people on board sank in the English Channel. There were two survivors. In the three hours it took for the boat to sink, as distress messages flooded in from those on board, French and British coastguards debated whose responsibility it was to rescue them. No help came,… Continue reading
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Statewatch News 5 August 2022 Issue 13/22
Friday, 5 August 2022 — Statewatch News (Issue 13/22, also available as a PDF) Welcome to the latest edition of Statewatch News, featuring: Frontex: covert interrogations at the Spanish border with no legal guarantees EU criminal records database access extended for migrant ‘screening’ In-depth research to keep you informed Continue reading
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UK: Removing clause 9 and beyond
Of all the abhorrent clauses in the government’s Nationality and Borders Bill, which passed its Commons stages last week, it is clause 9 – which would allow ministers to revoke the citizenship of British nationals without notice on ‘public interest’ grounds, which has caused the most outrage. When the New Statesman reported that the clause could affect up… 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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Watch: Australia: A Laboratory of Empire with Lowkey & Aamer Rahman
British Home Secretary Pritti Patel sees the country’s offshore migrant detention centers, referred to by some as “concentration camps” as a model for the U.K. to follow. Continue reading
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Statewatch: Call for expressions of interest
STATE DATABASES, BIOMETRICS, POLICING AND MIGRATION CONTROL As part of our ongoing work on the development and deployment of biometric technologies for policing and migration control, we are organising two workshops in October this year. 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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Statewatch News 7 May 2021
7 May 2021 — Statewatch News (Issue 09/21, also available as a PDF) Support our work —————————————- EU: Detention at the borders to increase “voluntary” removals As part of its ongoing drive to increase the removal of migrants from EU territory, the European Commission unveiled a new strategy on “voluntary” return and reintegration at the end of Continue reading
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New Plan for Immigration is same old Hostile Environment
At the end of March, the Home Office launched its consultation about the New Plan for Immigration. The consultation questionnaire has 45 questions – some are multiple-choice and some are open questions. But all of them are framed in such a way that it is almost impossible to answer any of them in a meaningful way.… Continue reading
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UK: Lawyers threatened with bankruptcy for taking on Home Office
By TruePublica: The senior partner at an independent law firm located near London, established for 30 years, has just published the following information on his blog, which is very concerning (source). In essence, lawyers are now being threatened by the Home office with huge personal losses, which could easily lead to personal bankruptcies for simply making an application to… Continue reading
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Priti Patel: Torturing the Scapegoat
I frequently find myself differing with readers who find it hard to understand that I can have personal friendships with people with politics very contrary to my own. I do not believe having a different opinion to me makes you a bad person. But there are times when I look at political opponents and consider… Continue reading
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Join us for Solidarity Knows No Borders Webinar #3
We are excited to announce the third event in our #SolidarityKnowsNoBorders webinar series THIS Thursday 25th of March at 6pm – Cases into Causes, Causes into a Movement: How Can Individual Campaigns Lead to Collective Justice? Make sure you register on Zoom to join now! 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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