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UK Migration Newswire Archive

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07-09-2008 09:01

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GMP try to scare migrant workers weeks before party conference

06-09-2008 18:55

In an outrageous act of media manipulation, Greater Manchester Police announced a couple of weeks ago that "A major operation to police the 2008 Labour Party Annual Conference has resulted in the arrest of three more people on suspicion of immigration offences."
 http://www.citylocal.co.uk/cities/Manchest.../article/24583/

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Campaign to end the detention of children

06-09-2008 08:35

This week the New Statesman launches a major campaign, No Place for Children, which calls for an end to the practice of detaining children for immigration reasons.

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Call for a citizen summit on migration

05-09-2008 22:08

France has chosen migration as one of the priority areas for the French presidency of the European Union, due to take place in the last six months of 2008.

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Around the Campaigns Friday 5th September 2008

05-09-2008 12:25

Very Urgent - Possible Charter Flight to Kurdistan/imminent
Four of the Iraqi/Kurds who were on hunger strike at Campsfield have been moved to Colnbrook. One of those being moved is Fazzel Ahmed leader of the recent hunger strike at Campsfield, said that they have all been given open ended removal directions,

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Italy to increase Troop numbers on the street.

05-09-2008 11:50

We all know that the Italian state put 3,000 troops including paratroopers on the streets of Milan, Rome and Naples earlier this year. We were unanimous in our condemnation. Pat yourself on the back. But now we get to see what they did. Figures available today confirm that the Italian army has participated in 97 arrests of which 66 people were migrants. Just in case you're bad at soft maths - that indicates that two thirds of military arrests of civilians have been migrants & the arrest rate is about one to every thirty soldiers. In addition to those fascination factoids there have been 263 reports made and 242 car thefts dealt with.

Obviously Italy needs more troops on the street. & minister of the interior Roberto Maroni has confirmed on his webpage and in an interview that Italy is going to get a surge.

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Fourth attempt to remove Alliance Ngondiop

05-09-2008 07:00

Alliance Ngondiop
Alliance Ngondiop, a Cameroon national was 'Captured' when reporting to the Immigration service, Wednesday of this week in Loughborough and is currently detained in Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre and due to be forcibly removed from the UK on British Airways flight BA302 on Monday 8th September @ 06:15 from Heathrow Airport London, to Paris, Charles de Gaulle airport, then Air France flight AF940 @ to Douala Cameroon.

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Innocent Prisoners / The Scandal of Britain's Child Detainees

04-09-2008 11:44

No place for children
Throughout its years in government - from Tony Blair's famous "Education, education, education" speech to the more recent "Every Child Matters" programme - Labour has claimed to champion the needs of the younger generation. For the 2,000 children who are sent to UK immigration detention centres every year, however, these claims ring hollow.

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Cost to keep immigrants in detention

03-09-2008 23:04

'The average direct budget cost for 2007/08 for operating each establishment in the immigration removal estate was £119 per bed space per day.'
Data obtained by NCADC under the Freedom of Information Act.
2500 innocent men women and children are detained in the UK at any given time and the government's plans are to increase detention spaces to 4000.
All the money ultimately comes from the taxes we pay. Who's good at maths?

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Berlusconi & Gadhafi finishing history, new centuries & stopping migrants

02-09-2008 08:35

This last week Berlusconi's propaganda machine ostentatiously presented an aid package with formal historical apology attached as the first time a European power has offered financial compensation to former imperial possession. Mr B's 5 billion dollars over 20 years would Colonel Gadhafi agreed set a precendent for blood money and completely make up for Mussolini's establishment of Italian provinces whose lasting legacies are the name "Libya" and the spiffing good movie about dashing heroics at the Battle of Tubrik.

This time neither Europe's leading fascist or Africa's most evasive dictator needed to push the migrant route thing. It was and has been for some time a "non-sequitor".

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Continuing Conflicts that Create Refugees - August 2008

02-09-2008 06:36

Twelve actual or potential conflict situations around the world deteriorated in August 2008 and only one improved.

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United Nations highly Critical of UK's treatment of women

01-09-2008 08:31

Extracts from the concluding observations of the United Nations Committee on the 'Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women' (CEDAW) of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland at its' 41st session held from 30 June to 18 July

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'Alarming' rise in self-harming at detention centres

31-08-2008 08:37

In the first six months of this year there were 109 cases of self-harm requiring medical attention. Colnbrook detention centre in Berkshire had the highest number, with 32 incidents so far this year. The numbers on self-harm watch have also risen - with 722 cases in the first half of 2008, up from 678 in the last six months of 2007. The total population of the country's immigration detention centres is typically below 2,300.

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Rape in the Jungle? : the Daily Mail hate of migrants.

29-08-2008 03:21

Today's British press will report a story of a gang rape by illegal migrants hoping to enter the UK of a British journalism student who was in a migrant camp to report sympathetically on their misery.

fact 1) She's Canadian.
fact 2) It happened last Monday.
fact 3) the prosecutor specifically said in his statement on Friday that it was not a "gang rape" but (presumedly based on evidence) the crime of a known rapist.
fact 4) The site known as "la jungle" only exists because of the opposition of the UK government to the former Red Cross camp of Sangatte which provided for those who had nowhere else to go.

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SYMAAG meeting

28-08-2008 17:01

The next meeting of the South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group (SYMAAG) is on Wednesday September 17th at 6.30pm.

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Protest at Communications House - Tuesday 2 September

28-08-2008 13:57

DEMONSTRATE AGAINST BRITAIN ’S RACIST IMMIGRATION LAWS

Show solidarity with asylum seekers and immigrants

TUESDAY 2 SEPTEMBER 1 – 2PM
Outside the UK Immigration Service Communications House
210 Old Street, London , EC1V 9BR
(nearest tube – Old Street )

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Solidarity Demonstration with Italian Roma

28-08-2008 05:49

End Attacks on Roma People in Italy

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No Borders South Wales Newsletter

27-08-2008 23:42

In order to further spread information about our activities and upcoming events we’ve produced our first newsletter.

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70 immigrants die in the sea south of Malta

27-08-2008 22:15

Only 8 survivors. Who have been put in a detention centre.
Border controls are murdering more people.

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Suffer the little children, to come unto a UK removal centre

27-08-2008 15:08

Report on a full announced inspection of Tinsley House Immigration Removal Centre 10-14 March 2008 by HM Chief Inspector of Prisons. Report compiled June 2008, published Wednesday 27th August 2008.
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