NCADC welcomes today’s report from the Home Affairs Select Committee, which raises concerns that the potentially lethal ‘head-down’ restraint technique is used during enforced removals,… Read more »
read moreThe human and financial costs of charter flights
£42million bill to get remove failed asylum seekers: How taxpayer funding for secretive flights has QUADRUPLED in past seven years Graham Smith, The Daily Mail… Read more »
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2011 news review
January The year began with cracks appearing in the government’s plan to dramatically reduce immigration by 2015 and reports of violence towards detainees by UKBA.… Read more »
read moreBorder hostilities: Passport to the media-policy merry-go-round
You have most probably heard about the latest scandal at the Home Office. Basically it was about a pilot scheme to replace the blanket checks… Read more »
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Foreign National Prisoners: an easy media target
Last week saw the publication of John Vine’s report on how the UK Border Agency ‘manage’ foreign national prisoners. The UKBA’s Independent Chief Inspector commented… Read more »
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Cats, lies, and family ties: human rights and wrongs at Tory Party conference
In an ongoing crusade to remove the “universal” bit from the concept of human rights, the Conservative Home Secretary Theresa May has announced plans to… Read more »
read moreRefugees prevented from lodging asylum claims in UK
Lunar House in Croydon The Guardian reports today on a strongly worded letter from the Law Society to the UK Border Agency and the UN… Read more »
read moreSri Lanka: Fears for those removed by charter flight
The UK Border Agency went ahead with a mass deportation to Sri Lanka this week. Legal challenges delayed the flight, and some people were removed… Read more »
read moreAmnesty campaign against deportation system
The UK Government must conduct a complete and radical overhaul of the current system of enforced removals from the UK, according to a new briefing… Read more »
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Campaigners blockade Heathrow detention centres to stop Iraq deportation flight
No Borders press release, 21 June Update: blockade ended peacefully at 9pm with no arrests Anti-deportation campaigners are blockading Colnbrook and Harmondsworth detention centres in… Read more »
read moreSri Lanka deportations: 'UK has Tamil blood on it's hands'
The deportation charter flight to Sri Lanka took off yesterday evening, 16 June, while deliberations were still underway at the High Court. It is understood… Read more »
read moreSri Lankans put at risk by UKBA breach of confidentiality
The immigration Barrister who blogs as Free Movement has revealed a serious breach of confidentiality of Sri Lankan refugees scheduled for deportation. Ahead of a… Read more »
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- Online Solidarity Rally for Fatou – End detention! Stop deportation!
- Solidarity in the Face of Detention
- Home Office increases immigration application fees, again
- 14 May: Knowledge is Power online workshop, evening session
- Access to Justice Open Meeting with the Hope and Justice Collective
Events
- Online Solidarity Rally for Fatou – End detention! Stop deportation!
- 14 May: Knowledge is Power online workshop, evening session
- Hope and Justice Collective Meeting – 27th March in London
- Thinking with our communities in Sheffield: detention and beyond detention
- Immigration Raids: Community Discussion 27th February
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