The arrests happened at local fast food places in Lye town centre, a small town near Stourbridge and Brierley Hill, one was arrested for overstaying his time in the country the other was deported to France. The arrests happened because of intelligence that was shared between the UK Border Agency and Lye’s Next Steps policing team. West Midlands Police describe the Next Steps Team as Police working with the local community and voluntary groups to introduce sustainable long term problem solving 'fixes'. "We want to create more opportunities for residents to play an active role in making the community a better place to live.” What this means is that these two arrests happened because the police relied on information from local residents.

As a result a campaign has now begun to try to prevent any more people from being deported, posters have been put up around the town in pubic places like bus shelters urging people not to talk to the police and presenting a different point of view from that normally found in the corporate media. Arresting, deporting and using people as scapegoats is neither sustainable or a long term “fix”. The posters tell people that this is a class war and the real enemy is not “illegal” immigrants stealing our jobs but the people at the top; politicians, bankers, the media, the police and far-right groups like the BNP and EDL who are all currently succeeding in dividing us so we fight amongst our selves.

It goes on to say that population is an us and them game where you don’t have to be an immigrant, if you become unemployed or too ill you cease to have any individual rights but become a population to be controlled. Subjected to forced labour, separation from children, arbitrary checks and searches, interrogation e.t.c

It urges people that if they know anyone stopping here “illegally” to help them, not to inform the police about them.