Another death in detention that could have been prevented - how many more have to die, how many more inquests, reports, inspections, inquiries - before these hell holes are shut down once and for all. #EndDetention#StopCharterFlights#TheseWallsMustFall
https://t.co/RrloS3uBED
New immigration minister announced as @SeemaKennedy but role downgraded to parliamentary under secretary.Hadn't realised before now that @carolinenokes rejected a 28 day time limit for immigration detention shortly before learning of her fate via Twitter. https://t.co/r3ypig8pv2
In less than 5 hours, @qatarairways will help the @ukhomeoffice to forcibly remove Ngamngon Leonardi
She'll be sent thousands of miles from her partner of 15 years, as he undergoes treatment for end-stage kidney failure
#KeepHerHere
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'We’re organising against the hostile environment today because its existence dehumanises us all, but also because it’s inherently linked to climate breakdown.' Article just out in the Independent https://t.co/XFaPzcgs5T
The government and the @ukhomeoffice tried to crush the spirit of @KwekuAdoboli. His deportation from the UK was widely condemned and deemed wrong by all measures of justice and fairness. But he lives to rise and to fight on for himself and others. This story is just beginning.
#SecretWindrushFiles good. Much surprise today that immigration policies are predecated on race & colour. Activists & academics have been saying this since the 50s and we feel it daily. These ideologies permeate @ukhomeoffice practices now. The big question is how to stop this.
*THIS WEDNESDAY* 19 June - Mass Lobby of Parliament to #WidenWindrush to the children, grandchildren (descendants) and family members of the Windrush Generation: 2-5pm come to parliament to speak to YOUR MP! #WindrushScandal#WindrushGeneration#HostileEnvironment (1/5 Thread)
Immigration #detention geeky people in the UK! It will soon (well, next month) be one year since the publication of the follow-up Shaw Review. It's time to start reminding ourselves what the Home Secretary promised to change then and what's happening now. https://t.co/W09l61h01e
Important notice from Movement For Justice (@followMFJ ) of lobby of parliament and meeting to discuss widening the Windrush scheme criteria for inclusion.
Researching for this was very eye-opening - while Theresa May is generally considered the sole architect behind the hostile environment (indeed she did play a major role), it was her predecessor in No.10, David Cameron, who was its driving force https://t.co/4O5RrycVjI
https://t.co/2HxUOfxiQu @maybulman
Craig Pedzai, detained for 4 and a half years: "You will never come out of that place okay. If you’re sick, paracetamol. If you break your leg, paracetamol. I saw people kill themselves in there. They are making money on people’s lives.”
https://t.co/CcRhlQrVVY
With the constant flow of reports like this one from @maybulman coupled with the catalogue of dreadful stories those of us in practice know of, surely it must be time for a major inquiry into the work of the @ukhomeoffice and the immigration rules/policies
Good to see England boxer Kelvin Bilal Fawaz has been released from immigration detention. His detention seems to have been utterly pointless, as in the majority of cases. @sajidjavid should be ashamed that such a failing system continues under his watch https://t.co/VRczK0n8zw
'At risk' adults held at Dungavel immigration centre https://t.co/5efTgWE0Mn
40% (and probably more from my experience) of people held at Dungavel Immigration Removal Centre said to be vulnerable and their plight is being ignored by @ukhomeoffice according to this BBC report.
Yesterday @sajidjavid et al I spoke to @KwekuAdoboli on his birthday. The evidence is clear. People suffer serious harm when taken from loved ones & deported to countries they do not know. A change to the law that allows this is needed. Work must start on the Shaw amendment.
On Sunday, a collective of undocumented migrants occupied parts of Charles de Gaulle Airport in protest.
Here is an English translation of their statement.
Please read and share.
https://t.co/vrbvmb8Ion
Hundreds of #GiletsNoirs - who describe themselves as the biggest collective of undocument migrants in France - occupied part of Charles De Gaulle, France's largest airport.
The called on Air France to "stop any financial, logistical or political participation in deportations".