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City of Shame: new Manchester detention centre

one of no borders | 07.12.2008 17:55 | Migration | Repression | Liverpool

The Home Office has re-opened the immigration detention centre at Manchester airport on Friday. In fact, Borders and Immigration minister Phil Woolas (the one with the pie in the face) was there personally to “unveil” the immigration prison. As if it was something to celebrate!

Just think about it: they can now lock-up 32 people at a time (asylum seekers whose claims have been rejected, students whose study visas have run out, unwanted immigrants who they’ve snatched from their work places, from their family homes or from trams and buses etc.), and Woolas thinks it right to hold some kind of ceremony!

Read more about 'Pennine House' here:
 http://nobordersmanchester.blogspot.com/2008/12/city-of-shame-new-manchester-detention.html

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