Immigration Reporting Centre is blockaded to protest forced deportations.
d.loch | 24.04.2008 04:20 | Migration
Outside the Immigration Reporting Centre, Northumberland today.
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