🚨 BREAKING: We have launched legal action against Home Office’s new Safety of Rwanda guidance to ensure that all individual cases against removal to Rwanda are properly considered. 1/3

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People seeking asylum are still being rounded up by the Home Office and driven into detention centres. There, they will live in cells with limited access to support, uncertain of their futures or when they may regain their freedom.
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Separated refugee children are also at risk under the Rwanda policy, because some are wrongly treated as adults. Some of the teenagers we work with were wrongly issued with notices of intent for Rwanda. Good to see this raised in the The Guardian
theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/m…

🚨Immigration raids: your rights, and what to do🚨

We have put together this simple blog against the backdrop of an increasingly violent and Hostile Environment towards migrants in the UK.

Please share widely.

righttoremain.org.uk/immigration-ra…

GDWG Director, Anna Pincus, is currently presenting to the Home Affairs Select Committee session on the Government's proposed reforms and progress made from the Brook House Inquiry.

Watch here: Parliamentlive.tv

Sign this petition from a man who worked with the UK armed forces in Afghanistan and has been sent a letter saying he will be sent to Rwanda.

He is calling on the Prime Minister to abandon the Rwanda plan.
change.org/p/stop-the-rwa…

🚨BREAKING: campaigners have built a message made with larger-than-life children’s building blocks outside Department for Education.

We’ve spelt out the message, because clearly the government isn’t listening.

🔊We need #ChildcareForAll families, no matter their immigration status!

✊🏽We are standing together against the cruel Rwanda Act.

That is why we & 250 other organisations wrote to the PM about about our shared outrage on this despicable assault on the most marginalised in our society.

#NotRwandaNotAnywhere

Read more👇🏽

Today is a grim day.

We know there is much fear and confusion about the newly passed Rwanda Act.

We want to reiterate that knowledge is power. These initiatives are scary - but knowing how unworkable they are is important. This 🧵 by Lizzie Dearden is a good place to start.

The Government’s shameful Rwanda Bill – which will see people seeking sanctuary forced onto planes to Rwanda – is becoming law. Flights could start taking off imminently.

Take action to show solidarity with people at risk. #NotRwandaNotAnywhere

➡️bit.ly/4aJm3TZ

The inhumane Rwanda Bill has now passed through parliament and awaits Royal Assent, when it will become law.

We signed an open letter to the Prime Minister condemning the bill alongside 250 others. Read more here. independent.co.uk/news/uk/immigr…

Read new report 'No Such Thing as Justice Here' about the criminalisation of people arriving to the UK by boat.

Data shows that from June 2022 – June 2023, 240 people were charged with ‘illegal arrival’ off small boats.

Full report here: bit.ly/43bID4v

We are deeply saddened to hear of another child's life needlessly lost in the channel - because of a border system that keeps putting lives at risk.

We cannot allow this to happen again and again.

We need safe routes now.
independent.co.uk/news/world/eur…

🚨 BREAKING 🚨
The UK government’s policy of GPS tagging asylum seekers arriving in the UK has been found UNLAWFUL, in a powerful decision by the data protection regulator, ICO - Information Commissioner's Office.

This is huge. 🧵
ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/…

Happy Valentine's Day!

Today we're joining with thousands of others to call for a fair, new plan for refugees. Today, and every day, we support refugee rights. Because #FairBeginsHere

Together With Refugees 🧡
togetherwithrefugees.org.uk/fair-begins-he…

A person we are supporting has set up a crowd funder to raise money for living costs as he is due to be released from detention soon.

Please do share and donate if you can!

paypal.com/pools/c/91Bu0f…

NEWS: The High Court has granted our client permission to challenge the procedural fairness of how the Home Office investigates allegations of mistreatment in immigration detention. Our client alleges excessive use of force & segregation at Brook House and Harmondsworth.

Thousands of students saw their lives destroyed by false allegations of cheating. Errors with the IT system have left many fighting to clear their names for a decade. We need action on this now. No-one should go through what they have. #myfutureback

theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/f…

Our vast spending on failed & deadly 'deterrence' measures at the French border are an insane 25-year loop of doing the same thing & expecting different results.
We deserve a differenmt migration politics. openDemocracy
opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-traf…

An asylum caseworker just told me the UK govt’s claim today to have cleared the asylum legacy backlog is ‘figure manipulation’ – & we can see it from the data

They also said they've been told to rush through cases despite knowing the decisions might be wrong

Quick thread 🧵