UK Migration Newswire Archive
Keep Patrick Masengo in the UK, no removals to DR Congo
03-02-2009 10:51
Continuing Conflicts that Create Refugees January 2009
02-02-2009 09:33
Four actual or potential conflict situations around the world deteriorated and three improved in January 2009, according to the new issue of CrisisWatch.Download the full report:
http://www.crisisgroup.org/library/documents/crisiswatch/cw_2009/cw66.pdf
Picket of the UKBA in Cardiff
01-02-2009 19:57
A 'Racist' Strike?
31-01-2009 19:24
Hundreds walk out of their workplace. On the second day the strike spreads, pulling up to a thousand workers out on secondary action across sites in Northern England and Scotland - much of it illegal under the anti-trade union laws Labour has, to its eternal shame, left on the statute books. In short, an outbreak of the very 'spontaneous' actions of our class that would normally excite the left in this country.Around the Campaigns Friday 30th January 2009
30-01-2009 09:55
Still need one surety in Bury to stand bail for Raphael and his mum. Surety must be resident in the UK and will be subject to a police check. If you can help please get back immediately to:
JohnO@ncadc.org.uk Please send urgent faxes/emails immediately to Rt. Hon Jacqui Smith, MP, Secretary of State for the Home Office, requesting that Raphael and his mother are released. Please use the updated 'model letter' RaphaelShaubaJS.doc attached or write your own version. If you do so, please remember to include HO ref: S/38066/3
Fax: 020 8760 3132 / + 44 20 8760 3132 if you are faxing from outside UK)
Emails:
UKBApublicenquiries@UKBA.gsi.gov.uk "CIT - Treat Official"
http://www.ncadc.org.uk/Newszine102/Raphael.html
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New immigration prison to open at Gatwick this spring
30-01-2009 00:37
The new immigration detention centre at Gatwick airport will not be opened until the spring, Corporate Watch has learned. The official opening had been scheduled for February this year but has been delayed for undisclosed reasons. The purpose-built high-security prison, named Brook House, is based on the 'successful' design of Colnbrook detention centre at Heathrow airport. The new detention centre will be run by Global Solution Ltd (GSL), which is now owned by G4S, and will hold up to 426 male and female detainees.
Please help Rashida Yasmeen and her four sons
29-01-2009 07:36
The family were previously detained and threatened with forcible removal as recently as August after their claim for asylum was refused. On that occasion they were released and the flight stopped when their lawyer successfully applied to the High Court for a judicial review of the decision to remove them.
Rashida and her sons arrived in the UK in 2007 after fleeing religious persecution in Pakistan. As Ahmadiyya Muslims, they were subject to death threats and were attacked at home by the extremist group Khadam-e-Nabuad, during which Mahmood was stabbed and Rashida's husband fled.
Crimininalisation of Sex Workers Must Be Opposed
28-01-2009 20:02
The proposed measures threaten the safety and incomes of sex workers at a time when economic conditions are worsening. It is likely to make sex workers more, not less, vulnerable, making it more difficult for workers to denounce cases of exploitation, abuse or assault at work.National Zimbabwe MDC meeting in Nottingham
28-01-2009 17:06
action at asylum profiteer
28-01-2009 16:33
Housing company PPNW in Salford Littledon Road, was the target. 4 locks to all the entrances to their offices were shut with superglue Tuesday night.Sollidarity with asylum seekers and friends who are taken away from Manchester
Crossing the Channel: Initiatives Start Preparing for a Noborder Camp in Calais
28-01-2009 09:28
Last weekend groups from France and the UK including people involved in the UK NoBorders Network agreed in a meeting in Lille to organise transnational Noborder Camp in Calais, France, which will be held in the last week of June 2009.Around the Campaigns Wednesday 28th January 2009
28-01-2009 09:10
Elsa and Betty, still here, still in detention"Elsa and Betty set out for the airport Tuesday morning but the flight was cancelled and they were brought back in Yarl's Wood. I've been asked to pass on thanks from the campaign to all who supported Elsa and Bethlehem. Pressure now needs to be put on the Home Office to release the family as soon as possible and return them to Leeds where they belong."
Please look out for calls for support over the next few days,
John Ward on behalf of the Campaign
Background: Second attempt to remove Elsa and Bethlehem
http://www.ncadc.org.uk/archives/filed%20newszines/Newszin98/Elsa.html
May Day Solidarity Conference
27-01-2009 21:35
Advance notice of a working conference on Saturday May 2nd on the theme of "Trade Unions for Asylum and Migrant Rights" in Barnsley, South Yorkshire.Organising meeting 7pm this Thursday 29th Jan at UNISON office in Barnsley.
Help Sarwar Gareb get out of Campsfield IRC and stay in the UK
27-01-2009 15:21
Sarwar came to the UK from Kurdistan/Iraq on 10th September 2000 to escape persecution by the nationalist Patriotic Union of Kurdistan party (PUK) and Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP). Working as a journalist and activist he consistently fought for the rights of children, women and workers which led to his imprisonment and torture by the two parties.
His application was refused on the 18th January 2001, subsequent appeals, reconsideration were also refused, though no attempt was made to remove Sarwar from the UK, until now.
Demonstrate outside Communications House Tuesday 3 Feb 1-2pm
27-01-2009 12:08
DEMONSTRATE AGAINST BRITAIN ’S RACIST IMMIGRATION LAWSTUESDAY 3 February 1-2pm
Outside the UK Immigration Service Communications House
210 Old Street, London , EC1V 9BR
(nearest tube – Old Street )
NCADC News Service Tuesday 27th January 2009
27-01-2009 09:24
Rumours of a charter flight within the next fortnight, removing UK Somali's to Mogadishu are circulating. At least one Somali in detention has been told that the UKBA 'Removals Faciliation Team' have sent a letter to his solicitor, saying he will be removed within the next two weeks by charter flight to Mogadishu via Nairobi.
If you know of any Somali's with set removal directions, they should make a Rule 39 application to ECHR, as all Somali case with the ECHR are on hold and interim relief is being given to those Somali's, with removal directions, who apply to the court.
Making an application to the European Court of Human Rights
http://www.ncadc.org.uk/archives/filed%20newszines/newszine89/Rule%2039.html Protest outside in Cardiff on thursday!
27-01-2009 00:03
http://noborderswales.org.uk/2009/01/22/picket-the-ukba/
Italy: latest attacks on migrants and protests
26-01-2009 22:19
Demonstration by refugees attacked by riot police in Tuscany.16 women on hungerstrike in Lampedusa.
In Rome attacks of Eastern European by fascists.
Around the Campaigns Monday 26th January 2009
26-01-2009 12:38
Constant Moussavou, Still Here, Campaign fights on"Constant said that a High Court injunction against the deportation order has been successful but he will still continue to be detained. It appears that the earlier legal ruling to disregard the new evidence and to not await the authentication of the documents (due to be received on Mon 26th Jan 09) provided on Constant’s behalf has been reversed.
He’d like to thank everybody for their support and expressed the need for your continued help and support in ensuring he’s able to resume his life and work in Leicester."
A special thank you also to Sir Peter Soulsby (MP), NCADC/supporters and to Canon Barry Naylor and colleagues for their continued support and interventions on Constant’s behalf.
Priya Thamotheram for the campaign /
priya.thamotheram@highfieldscentre.ac.uk Background: Sanctuary for Constant Moussavou
http://www.ncadc.org.uk/archives/filed%20newszines/Newszine100/Constant.html Second attempt to remove Elsa and Bethlehem
26-01-2009 08:54
Elsa Temesgen Imbaye and her 11 year old daughter, Bethlehem are currently detained in Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre and due to be forcibly removed from the UK tomorrow Tuesday, 27th January 2009 on BMI flight BD913 from Heathrow @ 14:15 to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
They were dawn raided for the second time, in the early hours of Friday 23rd January 2009
As you probably know, a previous attempt to deport them to Ethiopia in October last year failed and Elsa and Betty were able to return to Leeds.
Elsa arrived in the UK with her daughter in December 2004 and has been living in Leeds ever since.