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Immigration Sweeps Becoming More Frequent

ana (for the record only) | 14.12.2003 00:14 | Anti-racism | Repression | London

As we approach the Christmas period, London Transport Police are gearing up to “keep London safe for Christmas" (words of a police officer outside Victoria Station). They are reportedly achieving this by implementing immigration sweep and deportations, outside of tube station.

Original Report | Committee to Defend Asylum Seekers | National Coalition of Anti-Deportation Campaigns


Yesterday at 3pm, outside of Victoria tube station, around 40 police and immigration services officers stood in a massive line, with sniffing dogs detaining, searching, and stopping every one who they didn’t regard as white, especially Arabs and South Asians. They would pick up ‘suspects’, surrounding, harassing and asking them for their visas. What is happening to the people who did not have their papers with them is unknown, but they were taken in unmarked police vans and it is likely that they were taken to deportation centres. Over fifteen immigrants were taken away before a one person "no one is illegal" demonstration made the police action appreciated by onlookers. Read the whole report

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  1. H.M. PIGS / STOP AND WATCH CAMPAIGN — resister

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