immigration
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UK government announces draconian Brexit immigration policy and deployment of troops By Robert Stevens
The day after the government announced it was putting 3,500 troops on standby, amid business organisations saying they were “watching in horror” at the implications of a no-deal Brexit, proceedings in Parliament Wednesday descended into farce. Continue reading
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UK: “Stansted 15” anti-deportation protesters found guilty of terrorism charges By Margot Miller
Following a nine-week trial at Chelmsford Crown Court, the jury found the “Stansted 15” in contravention of the rarely used 1990 Aviation and Maritime Security Act, by endangering safety at an airport. The defendants, who are preparing to appeal the verdict, face potential life prison sentences and await sentencing in February. 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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IRR News (22 November – 5 December 2018)
6 December 2018 — Institute of Race Relations Weekly digest – Against Racism, for Social Justice As we wait for the jury at Chelmsford Crown Court to deliver a verdict in the Stansted 15 trial, IRR News reports on the worrying escalation in ‘crimes of solidarity’ this year. Liz Fekete and Anya Edmond-Pettitt cover investigations and prosecutions… Continue reading
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What the Stansted 15 Tells Us About Law and Order in Britain
By TruePublica: Back in September, three environmental activists were the first people in Britain since 1932 to receive jail sentences for non-violent anti-fracking protest in the UK. An appeal was lodged and public outrage caused a new judge to declare that the original ruling was ‘excessive”. This excessive use of the law is being used… Continue reading
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IRR News (8 – 21 November)
As we document in our calendar of racism and resistance, the last few weeks have been momentous for campaigners; with dedicated work achieving significant gains. Not only has the government announced that Campsfield House immigration removal centre in Oxfordshire will close down, but an inquiry into the Gangs Matrix carried out by the Information Commissioner… Continue reading
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Windrush: the inevitable result of a hostile environment and no legal recourse By Satbir Singh and Charlotte Threipland
As the government designs the compensation scheme for victims of the Windrush scandal, we look at the toxic combination of factors that caused the scandal in the first place. Continue reading
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IRR News (25 October – 8 November)
Testimonies to the London hearing of the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal, held at Friends House on 3 and 4 November, revealed the workings of the hostile environment – in health and education, in policing and detention – and some of the inspiring acts of resistance and solidarity they have evoked. 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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The Anti-Empire Report #158 By William Blum: Why do they flee?
Those in the US generally opposed to immigration make it a point to declare or imply that the United States does not have any legal or moral obligation to take in these Latinos. This is not true. The United States does indeed have the obligation because many of the immigrants, in addition to fleeing from… Continue reading
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How Israel helped to revive Europe’s ugly ethnic nationalisms By Jonathan Cook
[P]aradoxically, the “western” state that most visibly bucked the trend towards civic nationalism in the post-war period was Israel. It stuck rigidly with a political model of ethnic nationalism that had just been discredited in Europe. Today Israel embodies a political alternative to civic nationalism – one that is slowly and increasingly helping to rehabilitate… Continue reading
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Immigration Story Missing Context of Hunger and Freedom By Jane Regan
In the classroom, I emphasize that every news story—even a little one about a city sidewalk repair—must provide context. Why that sidewalk, why now? Who lives there and walks there? What sidewalks are not getting repaired? When was the sidewalk first built? What’s the budget? And so on. Continue reading
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The Refugee Crisis and the Mediterranean Sea – The Largest Graveyard in Modern History By Peter Koenig
In June 2018 alone, more than 500 refugees drowned in the Mediterranean Sea. Their boats were refused access to land in either Malta, or Italy. They were force-driven back by gun-boats to the North African shores they came from, mostly Libya, but many boats capsized and countless refugees didn’t make it. 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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Immigrant children tied down, hooded, beaten, stripped and drugged By Patrick Martin
Court documents made public in Virginia and Texas give a glimpse of the systematic brutality being meted out to immigrant children in both public and private jails. Children are strapped down, hooded and beaten, or drugged by force, as part of the everyday procedure in what can only be called the American Gulag. Continue reading
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IRR News (8 – 21 June 2018)
21 June 2018 — Institute of Race Relations Weekly digest – Against Racism, for Social Justice This week the Guardian published The List of 34,361 known deaths at the EU’s borders since 1993, which includes three teenage Eritrean asylum seekers, who came from the migrant camp in Calais to the UK, who have committed suicide here in the past seven… Continue reading
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IRR News (20 April – 3 May 2018)
The last couple of weeks have been dominated by the ‘revelations’ – familiar to many of our readers – of the inhuman consequences of the government’s ‘hostile environment’ policies. Some of those affected – the mostly Caribbean Commonwealth citizens who came to the UK as children in the 1950s and ‘60s to join their parents,… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 30 January 2018 (01/18)
30 January 2018 — Statewatch News ANALYSIS 1. Human rights violations at Spain’s southern border: steps towards restoring legality Continue reading
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