Tuesday, 31 January 2023 — Patients Not Passports
Last week, the government announced the creation of a new Home Office taskforce that will attempt to expand Hostile Environment immigration policies.
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Tag: immigration
UK: State violence in a no-access border zone
Thursday, 24 November 2022 — Institute of Race Relations
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, as one by one the passengers died of cold or drowned. As this week’s Calendar of Racism and Resistance shows, the body investigating the deaths – the worst loss of life in the Channel in over 30 years – the Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB), will not present its findings until at least early summer next year, and has not yet been in touch with most of the families of those who died, despite being sent their contact details. The families have also been denied access to recordings of their loved ones’ final calls for help. The unmistakable message conveyed by such responses is that these deaths don’t matter and that the families of the deceased are unworthy of respect.
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
UK: Removing clause 9 and beyond
16 December 2021 — Institute of Race Relations
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 to six million citizens who have or have access to a second citizenship, most from ethnic minorities, fear and anger erupted on social media, in the press, in parliament and in MPs’ constituency surgeries. Activists and community groups have responded with alacrity to raise the alarm, with almost a quarter of a million people signing a parliamentary petition to remove the clause from the bill. The IRR is working with several organisations including Reprieve, Muslim Association of Britain, Rights and Security International, and Status Now for All to oppose clause 9.
UK: Priti must resign
25 November 2021 — Safe Passage
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.
The tragic truth is that these deaths could, and should, have been prevented.
Priti Patel failed to prevent them. She must resign.
Join our calls for her to resign.
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Watch: Australia: A Laboratory of Empire with Lowkey & Aamer Rahman
1 August 2021 — MintPress News
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.
Statewatch: Call for expressions of interest
19 July 2021 — Statewatch
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.
These training and collaborative learning sessions will involve:
- Teaching about EU databases and information policy in the field of policing and migration;
- Learning from others working on similar and related topics; and
- Discussion of relevant issues with peers in the field.
To find out more and to express your interest in attending, please see our call, available in:
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BID’s response to the Nationality and Borders Bill
7 July 2021 — BID (Bail for Immigration Detainees)
We raise the alarm about areas of the bill that pose a particular threat to our clients
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.
Statewatch News 7 May 2021
7 May 2021 — Statewatch News
(Issue 09/21, also available as a PDF)
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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 April. The document states the use of detention “can increase the uptake of voluntary returns at early stages of the return process.” In particular, the proposed introduction of “border return procedures” – which could introduce mandatory detention of up to 10 months – is seen as key.
New Plan for Immigration is same old Hostile Environment
23 April 2021 — Migrants Organise
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. Priti Patel’s “New Plan for Immigration” is not so new and it is not a plan either. Continue reading…
UK: Lawyers threatened with bankruptcy for taking on Home Office
2nd April 2021 — True Publica
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 defend their client’s life, which may be at stake if they are deported back to their own country.
Priti Patel: Torturing the Scapegoat
29 March 2021 — Craig Murray
By Craig Murray
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 that they can only be motivated by malice. I honestly believe you have to be a psychopath to wish to inflict the kind of calculated cruelty on hapless individuals who have already suffered much, that was presaged in Priti Patel’s new proposals for dealing with asylum seekers.
Join us for Solidarity Knows No Borders Webinar #3
23 March 2021 — Migrants Organise
Dear friends,
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!
UK: The Hostile Environment Will Affect All EU/EEA Citizens Not Covered by The EU Settlement Scheme from 30th of June
5 March 2021 — Migrants Organise
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.
In this blog, our Legal Organiser, Brian Dikoff, argues that unless action is taken now, tens of thousands more vulnerable people are at risk of being left without any immigration status and plunged into the Hostile Environment.
New report: Deadly Crossings and the militarisation of Britain’s borders
25 November 2020 — Institute of Race Relations
Today, we publish a major report, Deadly Crossings and the Militarisation of Britain’s Borders.
Webinar: Deportation Union: databases for expulsions (26 October, 14:00-15:30 CET)
20 October 2020 — Statewatch
The EU is expanding a host of databases used for migration and border control. A key focus of this is the increased collection and use of personal data to facilitate forced removals. Continue reading
We Took Action Against the Hostile Environment
16 October 2020 — Migrants Organise
This weekend, under the banner of ‘Solidarity Knows No Borders’, groups in more than 20 locations across the country joined us to take action to demand an end to the Hostile Environment. Continue reading
UK: Stand in solidarity with Simba this weekend
9 October 2020 — Medact
This weekend, across the country thousands of people are taking action against the racism and cruelty of Hostile Environment immigration policies under the banner of ‘Solidarity Knows No Borders’ #SKNB.
Hi Fly: Airline profiting from deportations while owners decry ‘desperate plight of migrants’
9 October 2020 — Corporate Watch
The government’s attempts to hastily expel Channel-crossing migrants on charter flights have gathered pace, with a series of deportations over the last two months.
Deportation Union: revamped return policies and reckless forced removals
18 September 2020 — Statewatch
Join Statewatch and TNI on 28 September at 13:30 BST/14:30 CET for the first webinar of a three-part series accompanying the publication of the report Deportation Union: Rights, accountability and the EU’s push to increased forced removals.
The New Dark Age 