Immigration Follow

"Immigration soars 20 percent in a year" screamed the Daily Mail front page on Friday of last week. The claim was repeated across the British media.

The GEO Group—a company rocked by human rights, sexual abuse and racism scandals—is to be given £25 million to run the Dungavel immigrant removal centre in South Lanarkshire, Scotland.

Asylum seeker James Fallah-Williams reached the 14th day of a hunger strike on Monday in protest at his treatment by the UK Border Agency.

"FOREIGN WORKERS GET 3 IN 4 NEW JOBS," screamed a Daily Mail front page last week.

The Immigration Advisory Service (IAS) collapsed on Monday, leaving thousands of migrants without legal support.

The UK Border Agency (UKBA) has agreed to review the case of three Kurdish Iranian asylum seekers who mounted a 37‑day hunger strike outside its headquarters in Croydon.

A report into the death of Jimmy Mubenga by the charity Inquest calls for a parliamentary committee inquiry into the use of restraint in deportation.

Immigration is the latest issue to expose the instability of the European Union (EU). Together with countries’ debt problems, it reveals how the world economic crisis is putting strain on the union.

Six Kurdish Iranian refugees are on hunger strike in London in protest against British government plans to deport them to Iran.

As part of the run-up to the local elections, David Cameron made a particularly nasty speech about immigration

Mirfat Badallah, who was threatened with immediate deportation to Yemen, has scored a major success.

A number of migrant worker support groups have called a demonstration against the arrest and deportation of a group of workers at St Thomas hospital.