Ignore the xenophobes: we should welcome this wave of immigration

Asylum statistics for July/August/September 2002

Beware the 8th January 2003
Refugee and Voluntary Sector organisations are expressing grave concerns about sections *55 and *57 of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act, which come into force on January 8th 2003

"Most illegal immigration is, from the economic point of view, simply a labour migration not approved by the government"

Immigration Rules - Domestic Violence - Further Concessions

Asylum decisions in the wrong hands

Economic Migrants - Without them where would we be?

Economic Migrants - Without them would the NHS Collapse?
     Two articles in todays Independent, 'Why foreign nurses hold the nation's health in their hands' and 'Scandal of NHS and Third World'.
The first clearly explain the UK's need for the continuing economic migration of nurses to the UK, the second that government guidelines on recruiting overseas nurses are being ignored by commercial recruiting companies used by the NHS 

USA: Wages victory for economic migrants 'Sans Papiers'
      3 undocumented workers who were employed by a Las Vegas contractor, City Plan Development (CPD) to build a fire station but were paid below the standard minimum wage have achieved a brilliant victory. They took their employers to court for parity with other workers who were US citizens and were paid prevailing wage agreements. A District Court judge upheld a state labor commissioner's ruling that the workers should have been paid the prevailing rate, the court ordered CPD to pay the workers in full, fined the company and banned them from bidding for public contracts for two years.     More>>>

United Nations Group on Arbitrary Detention (UNGAD)
UNGAD, are now in session and all this week (Monday 25th November to 29th November 2002) will be conducting their examination of arbitrary detention around the world.

Meanwhile back in the UK: Anne Owers, chief inspectorate of prisons, has completed inspections of several of the UK removal/detention centres. Yet though these reports have been finished and sent to the Home Office quite some time ago, the Home Office seem to be sitting on them.
     Now one has to wonder why, is it because conditions are so bad that the Home Office are trying to clean up their act, before the reports are released. This is widely believed to be the case by those working in and around the UK detention estate.

Hamza Karenga Must Stay

How UK Foreign Investment - Creates Asylum Seekers

Mende Nazer Asylum Campaign

Asylum bill, could lead to serious breaches of Human Rights

Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act:
     All the debates both in the House of Commons and the House of Lords over the bill which is now an Act of Parliament.     Debates Commons/Lords

Debates in House of Lords on: Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Bill (NIAB)

Ahmadi Family Campaign update

How UK Foreign Investment - Creates Asylum Seekers

Irish Congress of Trade Unions: Campaign for the Ratification of Migrants Rights

NCADC - Lottery Grant Confirmed

Law Lords' Oakington Ruling Disappointing

Garza Family Campaign - When is a promise not a promise - ?

A Bad week for Economic Migrants

Roma: The Balkans’ Most Vulnerable

Ladislav Balaz Must Stay

'Starting Again…Young Asylum-Seekers' Views on Life in Glasgow'

This asylum-seekers Bill is repugnant and pushes Britain morally out in the cold

From the Borderline to the Colorline:

A Bad Year for Refugees in Canada 

A Call for the Regularisation of all 'Illegal' Residents in Europe

Farrokh Shiri - Must Stay Campaign - Very good news - not so good news