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.
Tag: refugees
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.
IRR News 30 April 2021: Playing the Refugee Convention
30 April 2021 — Institute of Race Relations
The ‘new plan for immigration’ and why we need to respond
With the public consultation closing on 6 May, it is vital to respond and to call out the illegality, impracticality and immorality of the asylum proposals in the government’s ‘new plan for immigration’.
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
