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Injustices and abuse of migrants in the UK’s asylum and immigration system

Published by NCADC on October 22, 2013 | Leave a response

Lisa Matthews (campaigns coordinator, NCADC) explains to Amina Taylor, Press TV journalist, the many abuses and injustices of enforcement in the UK’s asylum and immigration system. Ranging from a broken asylum system, the securitisation of the asylum system, cuts to legal aid, and imprisoning migrants there is a lot to cover in this short report. In the programme, refugee Ivo Kuka (friend of NCADC), talks about his experience of the detained fast-track system and the constant presence of the threat of forced removal. Watch the report here.

News of the Year 2012

Published by NCADC on December 28, 2012 | Leave a response

News stories from the world of asylum, immigration, human rights and NCADC. Look out for our campaign review of the year in January! —- JANUARY The year commenced with an important legal victory for human rights, as explained by Rosalind English on theUK Human Rights Blog: People who make unsuccessful claims to enter or remain in the United Kingdom cannot be removed without being given sufficient time for a lawyer to prepare a proper challenge to their claim. The government has failed in its appeal against the Administrative Court’s finding that government policy unlawfully provided for expedited removal procedures in Read the full article…

Zimbabwean activist Gladys Mabvira shares her experiences of detention with the New Statesman

Published by NCADC on August 3, 2012 | Leave a response

We love Gladys Mabvira. A Zimbabwean activist fighting for justice in her own asylum case, she has experienced immigration detention and attempted deportation. She was even put on a place heading to Zimbabwe - where she would have been in serious danger as a vocal opponent on the Mugabe regime - but her visible distress made the pilot aware she was being removed against her will, and she was taken off the flight. Gladys has not only spoken out about her own situation, and the indignity of immigration detention. She also speaks out on behalf of others whose voices would Read the full article…

Stop G4S!

Published by NCADC on June 12, 2012 | Leave a response

TODAY: Live Twitter debate 2-3pm BST (Tuesday 12 June 2012) hosted by G4S on Policing and the Private Sector. Join the conversation by using #policing debate and include @G4S_UK in your Tweet. They will only respond to questions from Twitter followers, and will not respond to questions or comments they deem offensive or abusive. Some suggested Tweets: Jimmy Mubenga died after being ‘restrained’ on a deportation flight by G4S (@G4S_UK) guards http://tiny.cc/tperfw #policingdebate 770 complaints were made about G4S (@G4S_UK) when they were running migration detention centres #policingdebate You could also mention that in Medical Justice and NCADC’s Outsourcing Abuse Read the full article…

Enforced removal contracts: the abusive end-point of a broken immigration system

Published by NCADC on January 26, 2012 | 1 Response

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, that racist language is used by escort staff, that there are too many escorts used in operations, and that risk assessments focus on the risk to escort staff rather the individual being removed. We agree with its recommendations of better recording of medical conditions, an independent monitoring procedure, the need for urgent guidance to be issued to escort staff about restraint methods and research into appropriate restrain on aircraft, and the need to abolish the Read the full article…

The human and financial costs of charter flights

Published by NCADC on December 29, 2011 | Leave a response

£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 29 December 2011 The Government has spent £42million on secretive flights to send failed asylum seekers back home, it was revealed today. British taxpayers are forking out a staggering £500,000 each month to fund expensive air travel arrangements for foreign nationals who have lost bids to stay in the country. Entire aircraft are rented by UK Borders Agency staff to send up to 100 immigrants back home at a time to prevent passengers on scheduled Read the full article…

Border hostilities: Passport to the media-policy merry-go-round

Published by NCADC on November 11, 2011 | Leave a response

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 on passports of people visiting the UK with a more targeted approach, and whether the Home Secretary knew the extent to which this was being implemented by her Border Force directors. There was the inevitable media outrage that so many of these visitors, who obviously include in their number untold illegal immigrants, terrorists etc, did not have to queue for hours at the start of their holidays, business trips, asylum/terror sprees. Of course, media hostility Read the full article…