Immigration Reporting Centre is blockaded to protest forced deportations.
d.loch | 24.04.2008 04:20 | Migration
The Immigration Reporting Centre, Northumberland House, Norfolk Street, North Shields has been blockaded today in protest at a recent spate of brutal raids by immigration “snatch squads”.
Outside the Immigration Reporting Centre, Northumberland today.
Local people have used chains to blockade the car park of the Reporting Centre in an attempt to prevent the unmarked vans used by immigration snatch squads from leaving the car park.
The snatch squads carry out brutal raids on the homes of vulnerable families and individual asylum seekers and migrants who have sought a safe home in Newcastle.
Residents in other parts of the region are also joining in with actions in key locations around the city.
Sophie Ray, a resident of North Shields said, “Families are being taken from their beds at 5am, often after immigration snatch squads have kicked down their door. They are dragged into vans and taken to detention centres before being forcibly deported. I can’t believe this happens to vulnerable people who have come to seek refuge in this country”.
The snatch squads carry out brutal raids on the homes of vulnerable families and individual asylum seekers and migrants who have sought a safe home in Newcastle.
Residents in other parts of the region are also joining in with actions in key locations around the city.
Sophie Ray, a resident of North Shields said, “Families are being taken from their beds at 5am, often after immigration snatch squads have kicked down their door. They are dragged into vans and taken to detention centres before being forcibly deported. I can’t believe this happens to vulnerable people who have come to seek refuge in this country”.
d.loch