Asylum
Update: deportation of Otis Bolamu halted after determined campaign
Swansea asylum-seeker fears for his life if the British authorities send him back to the Democratic Republic of the Congo
European Union leaders unveil new plan to lock out refugees
The European Union (EU) told rescue boats to let refugees drown in the Mediterranean last week.
Horror of child cages shows why we need to dump Trump - and tear down borders
Horrifying images and footage have shown the true face of the US border regime.
European rulers plot new clampdown on refugees after Aquarius docks in Spain
Hundreds of refugees arrived in Spain on Sunday after more than a week stranded in the Mediterranean Sea.
Campaigners say ‘the border kills’ after Belgian cops shoot two year old
Refugee support organisations in northern France have slammed the Belgian, British and French governments after a two year old refugee was shot in the face on 17 May.
As Tories attack migrants - put them in a hostile environment, not refugees
Theresa May is fulfilling her 2013 promise to create a “hostile environment” for migrants.
From inside Yarl’s Wood: ‘Keeping people in here indefinitely is killing us’
23 March 2018Detainee speaks out as a House of Commons committee hears damning evidence of the regime at Yarl’s Wood
Court backs up the Tories and locks refugee children out of Britain
07 November 2017The high court delivered a blow to refugees and migrants last week. It rejected a challenge to the Home Office’s closure of a scheme for unaccompanied young refugees.
Another death in detention centre - as judge rules hundreds have been wrongly detained
10 October 2017A Jamaican man detained at Morton Hall immigration removal centre in Lincolnshire died in hospital on Tuesday of last week.
Stand Up To Racism conference is a key event to help take on the racist right
03 October 2017Participants range from shadow ministers to trade unionists, campaigners, students and grassroots anti-racist activists. Dave Sewell looks at some of the reasons people will be there
As refugee crisis grows in Europe, we say - let them in
26 September 2017The refugee crisis has not gone away—if anything it is getting worse.
Thousands of protesters in Rome defend refugees after police attacks
29 August 2017Thousands of people marched through Rome last Saturday in protest at police violence against refugees.
New reports say Britain’s state has ‘failed’ child refugees - and makes others less safe
12 July 2017Britain’s government has let down refugee children in Europe, and patrols it supports in the Mediterranean have led to more deaths.
Bring down the borders - and don’t capitulate to Tory racism on immigration
09 May 2017Theresa May this week reaffirmed her vow to cut net immigration by two thirds, to below 100,000 a year. That target eluded her as home secretary—despite law after law and raid after raid to create a “hostile environment” for migrants.
Iraqi family speaks out: ‘The way government treats refugees fuels racism’
02 May 2017A family of Iraqi refugees has compared their intimidation by racists on the streets to that by the Home Office.
Racist rules refuse NHS care to thousands of people due to their immigration status
18 April 2017Cruel immigration checks are putting vulnerable people off seeking the health care they need, writes Dave Sewell
Anti-racist march applauded in Croydon after horrific attack on asylum seeker
11 April 2017Alistair Farrow reports from Croydon anti-racist march, while Sadie Robinson speaks to migrants about the hell that is Britain's immigration system
Solidarity with refugees after Dunkirk fire
11 April 2017A refugee camp near Dunkirk in northern France burned down on Monday. Some 1,500 people are now in desperate conditions and fearing deportation.
Shock in Croydon as asylum seeker fights for his life after vicious attack
04 April 2017Anti racists held a vigil in south London this afternoon, Sunday, in the wake of a vicious attack on Friday night which left a 17 year old Kurdish-Iranian asylum seeker from Croydon fighting for his life. Doctors say he is in a critical condition.
Protest called after attack in Croydon leaves asylum seeker fighting for life
04 April 2017Stand Up To Racism (SUTR) has called a protest for tomorrow, Sunday, after a young asylum seeker was the victim of a "frenzied attack" by a group of people
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